Photosynthetic cells are quite diverse and include cells found in green plants, phytoplankton, and cyanobacteria. During the process of photosynthesis, cells use carbon dioxide and energy from the ...

For biochemists, it's the which-came-first question: oxygen production by photosynthesis or oxygen consumption by aerobic ...

Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with ...

However, how and when oxygenic photosynthesis originated remain unresolved and controversial questions, blurring and obfuscating our understanding of the history of life on earth. In this doctoral ...

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Researchers have investigated the structure and light energy transfer efficiency of a protein complex crucial to the photosynthesis of purple sulfur bacteria thriving in high-salt, high-alkaline ...

A 2-billion-year-old molecule may solve the “Chicken or Egg” mystery of life’s oxygen timeline. Scientists found evidence ...

The photosystem II protein complex now shared by various lineages of cyanobacteria, algae and land plants has served as a major site of oxygen production throughout the history of life on Earth ever ...

algae and cyanobacteria." The long-term goal of the project is to learn how to engineer plants to have better photosynthetic efficiency, said McKenzie, a postdoctoral scholar in biochemistry.

Synechocystis is a type of cyanobacteria, and produces oxygen through photosynthesis when exposed to sunlight. The researchers tested the device in both a household setting and semi-outdoor ...

Scientists around the world have zoomed in on cyanobacteria and other microalgae as potential alternative foods. In part ...