Unlike us, plants don't need pantries full of food to stay alive; the Sun is their pantry. But, like us, they require fairly regular sustenance, which they create via photosynthesis. This seemingly ...

Despite its role in shaping life as we know it, many aspects of photosynthesis remain a mystery. Scientists are working to change that. The researchers used a X-ray laser to capture the most complete ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Photosynthesis is an important process that permits plants, including trees, ...

Plants, just like animals, need food to survive. But the way that plants go about making their food - a process called photosynthesis - is not particularly fast or efficient! So scientists at the ...

A team from the University of Illinois has developed a modeling framework connecting enzyme activity related to photosynthesis to yield. This is the first time a model has tied the dynamic ...

Katharina Brinkert receives funding from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the European Space Agency (ESA). Life on Earth owes its existence to photosynthesis – a process which is 2.3 billion ...