The relative amounts of apparent photosynthesis in two portions of the spectrum, one usually in the yellow, were determined for white pine trees grown in red or in blue-violet light. There were rather ...

Water-soluble protein helps to understand the photosynthetic apparatus. Whenever you see green color out in nature, you are likely to look at chlorophyll. This is the pigment used by all plants to do ...

The pleasant green appearance of plants, caused by their reflectance of wavelengths in the 500–600 nm range, might give the impression that green light is of minor importance in biology. This view ...

About 2.5 billion years ago, a pigment called chlorophyll appeared in single-celled organisms, allowing them to capture energy in the form of light and convert it into sugars. This biochemical trick, ...

The composition of reconstructed LHCII, as seen in the apoprotein (left) and superposed structure of pigments (right), closely matches that of natural LHCII in most regions. Humans can do plenty, but ...

Plants ignore the most energy-rich part of sunlight because stability matters more than efficiency, according to a new model of photosynthesis. From large trees in the Amazon jungle to houseplants to ...

Congratulations to Philip Ball, whose article "Is photosynthesis quantum-ish?" has been picked as one of Physics World's five favourite features of 2018. This article first appeared in the April 2018 ...