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Bioengineering better photosynthesis increases yields in food crops for the first time ever

Bioengineering better photosynthesis increases yields in food crops for the first time ever

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Helping world food security by unlocking a key to photosynthesis

Helping world food security by unlocking a key to photosynthesis

  Scientists reveal ‘beating heart’ of photosynthesis that is responsible for significantly influencing plant growth. Study shows how an electrical reaction in protein complex cytochrom... Read more

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Accelerating the process of photosynthesis to increase crop production

Accelerating the process of photosynthesis to increase crop production

Scientists have found how to relieve a bottleneck in the process by which plants transform sunlight into food, which may lead to an increase in crop production. They discovered that producin... Read more

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Blue-green algae could be a new green power source

Blue-green algae could be a new green power source

Concordia researchers create a technology to harness the electrical energy from plants To limit climate change, experts say that we need to reach carbon neutrality by the end of this century... Read more

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High yield crops a step closer

High yield crops a step closer

Crops with improved yields could more easily become a reality, thanks to a development by scientists. Researchers studying a biological process that enables tiny green algae to grow efficien... Read more

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Micro Photosynthetic Power Cells may be the Green Energy Source for the Next Generation

Micro Photosynthetic Power Cells may be the Green Energy Source for the Next Generation

A team of researchers from the Optical Bio Microsystem lab at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, have invented and developed micro-photosynthetic cell technology that can harness elec... Read more

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Nanobionics Supercharge Photosynthesis

Nanobionics Supercharge Photosynthesis

Could be significant ramifications for energy harvesting and solar energy conversion . . . Carbon nanotubes and inorganic nanoparticles enhance photosynthetic activity and stability. The Sci... Read more

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Photosynthesis hack needed to feed the world by 2050

Photosynthesis hack needed to feed the world by 2050

Using high-performance computing and genetic engineering to boost the photosynthetic efficiency of plants offers the best hope of increasing crop yields enough to feed a planet expected to h... Read more

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Water and sunlight the formula for sustainable fuel

Water and sunlight the formula for sustainable fuel

An ANU team has successfully replicated one of the crucial steps in photosynthesis, opening the way for biological systems powered by sunlight which could manufacture hydrogen as a fuel. “Wa... Read more

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Proteins that replace silicon: A semi-artificial leaf faster than “natural” photosynthesis

Proteins that replace silicon: A semi-artificial leaf faster than “natural” photosynthesis

This procedure yields the highest photocurrents observed to date for semi-artificial bio-photoelectrodes while the electron transfer rate exceeds by one order of magnitude the one observed i... Read more

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ASU-led study yields first snapshots of water splitting in photosynthesis

ASU-led study yields first snapshots of water splitting in photosynthesis

An international team, led by Arizona State University scientists, has published today in Nature a groundbreaking study that shows the first snapshots of photosynthesis in action as it split... Read more

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Bio-Robot Lives off of Photosynthesis Like a Plant

Bio-Robot Lives off of Photosynthesis Like a Plant

The Symbiotic Machine is currently living at an aquarium in the Glass House in Amstelpark in Amsterdam, Transdisciplinary artist and researcher Ivan Henriques collaborated with scientists fr... Read more

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Bionic plants

Bionic plants

Nanotechnology could turn shrubbery into supercharged energy producers or sensors for explosives. Plants have many valuable functions: They provide food and fuel, release the oxygen that we... Read more

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Cobalt catalysts allow researchers to duplicate the complicated steps of photosynthesis

Cobalt catalysts allow researchers to duplicate the complicated steps of photosynthesis

Humans have for ages taken cues from nature to build their own devices, but duplicating the steps in the complicated electronic dance of photosynthesis remains one of the biggest challenges... Read more

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Maths study of photosynthesis clears the path to developing new super-crops

Maths study of photosynthesis clears the path to developing new super-crops

It should help biological scientists to develop crops with significantly improved yields to feed the world How some plant species evolved super-efficient photosynthesis had been a mystery. N... Read more

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