Plant breeders have been prolific, and North Dakota State University’s Woody Plants Improvement Project has developed a ...

Since plants need a lot of sugar to prepare their food, people assume that adding sugar to the plant water might be good for ...

Sunlight drives photosynthesis, which drives starch production, which drives yield,” explains Ken Ferrie. If sunlight hits ...

Berkeley Lab scientists have created a novel device that mimics photosynthesis, converting CO2 into valuable C2 chemicals ...

Tropical coastal forests known as mangroves are known for being the first “buffer zones” in coastal systems. New research ...

Scientists at Berkeley Lab create solar-powered artificial leaf that turns CO₂ into liquid fuel, marking a major step in ...

Plants eat sunlight and air to make life. But the key enzyme behind it all, called rubisco, isn’t actually all that great at its job. Let’s talk about how photo ...

High-starch algae are important in biofuel production, as a feed supplement in agriculture and as an efficient way to bind ...

A startling new study has revealed that microplastics are inhibiting plant photosynthesis, threatening global food production and placing up to 400 million additional people at risk of hunger in the ...

It was a morning in early April and Nature was playing tricks on us. The weather had been cold and raw for days, but then ...

“An oak is the best tree to choose because it is the No. 1 plant for supporting the food web, ” says University of Delaware ...

In relation to global warming and the role of carbon dioxide, the atmospheric residence-time of carbon dioxide from industrial emissions, and the carbon dioxide fixation capacity by photosynthesis in ...