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U Copenhagen team discovers reverse photosynthesis process for the breakdown of biomass for fuels or chemicals production
2016-04-04 17:56:16| Green Car Congress
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Photosynthesis more ancient than thought, and most living things could do it
2016-03-16 04:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae and cyanobacteria use the energy from the Sun to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide, releasing oxygen as a waste product. But a few groups of bacteria carry out a simpler form of photosynthesis that does not produce oxygen, which evolved first. A new study by an Imperial researcher suggests that this more primitive form of photosynthesis evolved in much more ancient bacteria than scientists had imagined, more than 3.5 billion years ago....
How plants protect photosynthesis from oxygen
2016-02-27 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: During the daytime, plants convert the Sun's energy into sugars using photosynthesis, a complex, multi-stage biochemical process. New work from a team including Carnegie's Mark Heinnickel, Wenqiang Yang, and Arthur Grossman identified a protein needed for assembling the photosynthetic apparatus that may help us understand the history of photosynthesis back in the early days of life on Earth, a time when oxygen was not abundant in the atmosphere. Their work is published by Proceedings of the National...
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Berkeley Lab team creates cyborgian hybrid artificial photosynthesis system; CO2 to acetic acid at high yield
2016-01-05 13:55:31| Green Car Congress
Metabolic pathway in cyanobacteria could yield better biofuels from photosynthesis
2015-12-23 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Scientists from the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered that a metabolic pathway previously only suggested to be functional in photosynthetic organisms is actually a major pathway and can enable efficient conversion of carbon dioxide to organic compounds. The discovery shines new light on the complex metabolic network for carbon utilization in cyanobacteria, while opening the door to better ways of producing chemicals from carbon dioxide or plant biomass,...
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