Trees may forgo photosynthesis if they can’t absorb enough water overnight, revealing how drought reshapes their daily ...

Photosynthesis occurs in chloroplasts found within cells. It is the chloroplasts that contain the green pigment chlorophyll which absorbs light. The plant uses this glucose to grow as well as make ...

Plants have small pores on the underside of their leaves, known as stomata. When the sun rises, these pores open and the ...

Genetic analyses of algae conducted by Bhattacharya suggest that the pivotal endosymbiotic event that endowed plants with the engine of photosynthesis happened just once in our planet’s early ...

“I think initially I wanted to make life eternal,” Malnoë, associate professor of biology and principal investigator of the lab, said. Now, after completing a bachelor’s in agronomical sciences, ...

Temperature, carbon dioxide concentration and light intensity can affect the rate of photosynthesis. Plant organisation - Edexcel Plant leaves are adapted for photosynthesis and gas exchange.

But to learn why plants reflect green light, Gabor and a team that included Richard Cogdell, a botanist at the University of Glasgow, looked more closely at what happens during photosynthesis as a ...