Most life on Earth depends upon plants for energy. Plants capture light from the sun and use it to build up chemical stores of energy. This is called photosynthesis. The basic structure of a plant ...

Cells get nutrients from their environment, but where do those nutrients come from? Virtually all organic material on Earth has been produced by cells that convert energy from the Sun into ...

In a head-to-head battle of harvesting the sun's energy, solar cells beat plants. But scientists think they can even up the playing field. Plants are less efficient at capturing the energy in sunlight ...

In a groundbreaking achievement that redefines biological boundaries, scientists led by Professor Sachihiro Matsunaga at the University of Tokyo have successfully engineered animal cells capable of ...

Scientists in France have transformed the chemical energy generated by photosynthesis into electrical energy by developing a novel biofuel cell. The advance offers a new strategy to convert solar ...

Chloroplasts with high rates of photosynthetic O2 evolution (up to 120 μmol O2·(mg Chl)-1·h-1 compared with 130 μmol O2·(mg Chl)-1·h-1 of whole cells) were isolated from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii ...

University of Tübingen team discovers mechanism of shape formation in plants – as predicted by mathematician Alan Turing Plant leaves need a large surface area to capture sunlight for photosynthesis.