Using ultrafast, intensely bright pulses of X-rays scientists have obtained the first ever images at room temperature of photosystem II, a protein complex critical for photosynthesis and future ...

In the recent decade, scientists have paid more attention to studying light harvest for producing novel bionic materials or integrating naturally biological components into synthetic systems.

Researchers from Okayama University have discovered rapid structural changes in the oxygen-evolving center of Photosystem II (PSII) upon light excitation, revealing insights into the mechanism of ...

Heat and water deficit stresses tend to impede and restrict the efficiency of photosynthesis, chlorophyll fluorescence and maximum photochemical quantum yield in plants based on their characteristic ...

Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (along with collaborators in Sweden, Germany and the UK) have shed new light on the final step of ...

Researchers have caught their best glimpse yet into the origins of photosynthesis, one of nature’s most momentous innovations. By taking near-atomic, high-resolution X-ray images of proteins from ...

The process of oxygenic photosynthesis, in which solar energy is converted into chemical energy, underpins life on earth and is the principal producer of both oxygen and organic matter on earth.

All higher organisms on earth receive their energy directly or indirectly from oxygenic photosynthesis performed by plants, green algae and cyanobacteria, the last two representing an important part ...

Photosystem I in plants shows a hitherto unknown face / Molecular examination with maximum precision Photosynthesis is the most important basis of life on Earth. In it, plants and single-cell algae ...