Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

Researchers find that the earliest bacteria had the tools to perform a crucial step in photosynthesis, changing how we think life evolved on Earth. Researchers find that the earliest bacteria had the ...

A new study sheds new light on the evolution of photosynthesis in plants and algae, which could help to improve crop production. A Rutgers-led study sheds new light on the evolution of photosynthesis ...

Photosynthesis transforms solar energy into oxygen and sugar and first arose in bacteria, but the molecular mechanisms involved in the origin and evolution of the existing bacterial phototrophs have ...

C4 photosynthesis represents a striking example of convergent evolution, where multiple plant lineages have independently modified an ancestral C3 pathway to enhance carbon fixation efficiency. This ...

The enzyme rubisco is found in all plants and other photosynthesizing organisms. It plays a key role in fixing carbon from the air and has helped shape life on Earth. Now researchers at UC Davis, UC ...

Early in his career, Russ Monson produced a series of influential eco-physiological papers that helped lay the foundation for the study of C₄ plant evolution. Among the most important was a 1984 paper ...

Vol. 105, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: Using and Navigating the Plant Tree of Life (March 2018), pp. 602-613 (12 pages) PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Next-generation sequencing facilitates rapid production of ...

Generally when we consider the many plants around us, we imagine them efficiently using the electromagnetic radiation from the Sun via photosynthesis in their leaves — pulling carbon-dioxide from the ...

Researchers find that the earliest bacteria had the tools to perform a crucial step in photosynthesis, changing how we think life evolved on Earth. The finding also challenges expectations for how ...

When early microbes evolved, some species developed ways to convert sunlight into cellular energy and to use that energy to capture carbon from the atmosphere. The origin of this process, known as ...