An international team led by QUT researchers continues to challenge a long-held assumption in photochemistry with potential ...

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Sunlight represents one of the most abundant yet underutilized energy sources on Earth. In nature, this energy is captured through photosynthesis, where plants convert light into chemical energy.

Path of light in photosynthesis traced Date: May 15, 2021 Source: University of Michigan Summary: Three billion years ago, light first zipped through chlorophyll within tiny reaction centers, the ...

Light from the sun is converted to food for plants and animals, and its byproduct is oxygen. While crucial to life on Earth, the most intimate details of this chemical reaction have long eluded ...

The light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis are largely mediated by multi-protein complexes, including PSI and PSII, cytochrome b6f, ATP synthase and NAD (P) dehydrogenase (NDH).

Jennifer Ogilvie, U-M professor of physics and biophysics, studied photosynthetic reaction centers in purple bacteria. These centers are similar to the reaction centers in plants, except they use ...

Terrestrial plants drove an increase in global photosynthesis between 2003 and 2021, a trend partially offset by a weak ...

Terrestrial plants drove an increase in global photosynthesis between 2003 and 2021, a trend partially offset by a weak ...

News Release 24-Mar-2023 Photosynthesis: varying roads lead to the reaction center Peer-Reviewed Publication Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München ...

Plants take advantage of quantum mechanics to harvest sunlight with near-perfect efficiency—though only roughly 2 percent of that capture sunlight ultimately gets stored as chemical energy. Now ...