Whether subterranean life could have ever created the kind of photosynthetic atmosphere without plate tectonics is open for debate.
The resulting photosynthetic activity could, in theory, increase the storage of carbon from the atmosphere into the deep ocean.
Take, for example, a team of researchers from Vanderbilt University who developed a solar cell using the photosynthetic protein found in spinach.
They found that it supported an idea proposed in the 19th century that anthocyanins shade the photosynthetic apparatus of the leaf from excess light.
She met with him last December when he came to visit her lab, where she researches the ocean phytoplankton Prochlorococcus, the most abundant photosynthetic cell on the planet.
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The focus of the deal between Nocera and Tata revolves around the use of catalysts to produce power by splitting water molecules, similar to the process that occurs during part of the photosynthetic cycle.
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Then its founders, Jonathan Wolfson and Harrison Dillon, asked themselves whether it might not be cheaper to ignore the photosynthetic step, buy the sugar that photosynthesis produces instead, and concentrate on getting the algae to turn it into oil.
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By measuring the way their fields reflect and emit energy at visible and infrared wavelengths, precision farmers can monitor a wide range of variables that affect their crops such as soil moisture, surface temperature, photosynthetic activity, and weed or pest infestations.
Whether plants are C3 or C4, the way they get carbon dioxide from the air is the same: The plant leaves have little holes, or stomata, through which carbon dioxide molecules can diffuse into the moist interior for use in the plant's photosynthetic cycles.
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