According to the news, the unicellular microorganisms are rod-shaped and nourish themselves by photosynthesis.
Phytoplankton -- microscopic organisms that congregate near the ocean surface - absorb atmospheric CO2 through photosynthesis.
Artificial photosynthesis is the direct conversion from CO2 into organic materials, which can solve both of these problems.
Local temperatures would still change in some places, as would ocean currents, rainfall patterns, soil moisture and photosynthesis.
Carbon dioxide, the result of burning fuel, is, together with water and sunlight, the raw material of photosynthesis.
Without photosynthesis, the process by which plants use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into energy, the trees effectively starve.
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It's run entirely off the power that's in that fiber, that was originally collected from the sun, through photosynthesis.
This mixture is then spread onto a glass or metal surface and through photosynthesis, it keeps on generating electricity.
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On the other hand, C4 photosynthesis seems to have evolved more than 50 times, in 19 families of plant.
During photosynthesis -- the process when the plant absorbs carbon dioxide and gives off oxygen -- organic tissue absorbs airborne toxins.
The evolution of woody plants has solved the problem of capture (photosynthesis) and storage (formation of durable cells) at minimal cost.
An atmosphere richer in carbon dioxide concentrations may allow plants to transpire less water during photosynthesis, and thus, improve drought tolerance.
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But this substitution reduces the efficiency of photosynthesis, especially at high temperatures.
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For example, photosynthesis appears to involve some level of quantum processes.
Many C3 plants, meanwhile, have several of the genes needed for C4 photosynthesis, but do not use them in the same way.
C4 plants often absorb CO2 from the air in one type of cell and then convert it to sugars through photosynthesis in another.
That variety suggests the shift from one form of photosynthesis to the other is not as radical as might appear at first sight.
Most plants use an enzyme called rubisco to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into sugars containing three carbon atoms a process known as C3 photosynthesis.
Experiments carried out by the scientists showed that a 2C rise in temperatures caused heat stress in the trees, shutting down the plants' photosynthesis.
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"There were certain things that grabbed my interest, such as photosynthesis, such as us living off plants and plants living off us, " he said.
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Serendipity and coincidence are the photosynthesis of romance, hinting at some kind of supernatural preordination, the sense that two people are made for each other.
Researchers have spoken in the past of trying to detect a marker for chlorophyll, the pigment in plants that plays a critical role in photosynthesis.
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The infrared light that is reflected by a plant shows how efficiently photosynthesis occurs in that plant and can provide insight into its general health.
The new technique works by taking advantage of plants' ability to generate an electrical impulse when struck by light - part of the process of photosynthesis.
Air that is 21% oxygen, one of the most reactive elements in the periodic table, suggests the gas is being freshly minted as it is, by photosynthesis.
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Water coming up from below will often have a lower pH than the surface water, because at depth there is no photosynthesis but plenty of respiration.
The other raw material for photosynthesis, carbon dioxide, will be supplied as the exhaust from industrial plants such as power stations, oil refineries and natural-gas processors.
It interferes with the reactions involved in photosynthesis, which is the process in which the plants produce the sugars to fuel their growth, leaving the plants weakened.
IRRI's crop scientists, plans to screen the institute's collection of 6, 000 varieties of wild rice to see if any of them display a predisposition for C4 photosynthesis.
Most biofuels schemes entail some plant or algae using photosynthesis to create a sugar that is transformed into fuel either by the organism or after the plant is harvested.
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