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Scientists have identified the path that led to the development of new super-crops, which use an advanced form of photosynthesis.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 10, 2013, 23:02
Scientists have found a way to improve yields of some crops by understanding their evolutionary process that made them significantly more productive than others over the years, a study said.
Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 15:11
A new study suggests that oxygen appeared in the atmosphere up to 700 million years earlier than it was earlier believed, raising new questions about the evolution of early life.
Last Updated: Thursday, July 25, 2013, 19:55
NASA scientists have used satellites to measure what`s occurring inside plants at the cellular level, a finding that can help better crop assessment.
Last Updated: Thursday, June 27, 2013, 18:49
One of science`s greatest mysteries is how and when oxygenic photosynthesis-the process responsible for producing oxygen on Earth through the splitting of water molecules-first began.
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 18:52
Berkeley Lab researchers, working at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), have developed the first fully integrated microfluidic test-bed.
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 18:48
The growth of plants toward light is particularly important at the beginning of their lifecycle.
Last Updated: Friday, May 17, 2013, 20:28
An important advance in the race to develop carbon-neutral renewable energy sources has been achieved.
Last Updated: Sunday, February 24, 2013, 00:15
Scientists studying the world’s oldest sedimentary rocks have claimed that about 3.8 billion years ago - not long after life appeared on Earth - an early form of photosynthesis may have evolved on the planet.
Last Updated: Saturday, February 23, 2013, 15:45
Scientists studying the world`s oldest sedimentary rocks have claimed that about 3.8 billion years ago, an early form of photosynthesis may have evolved.
Last Updated: Sunday, July 8, 2012, 12:10
A new study led by an Indian origin scientist is trying to detail the individual steps of highly efficient reactions that convert sunlight into chemical energy within plants and bacteria.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 18:29
Atmospheric oxygen really took off on our planet about 2.4 billion years ago during the Great Oxygenation Event.
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