Photosynthesis takes place before our eyes every day in every single little green leaf -- yet the details of the complex process have not yet been fully understood. A research team has unraveled ...

New insight into photosynthesis could help grow more resilient plants New model helps scientists understand how plants store energy in the thylakoid membrane Date: June 29, 2021 Source: Washington ...

The biogenesis of thylakoid membranes, an indispensable event for the photoautotrophic growth of plants, requires a significant increase in the level of the unique thylakoid membrane lipid ...

In higher plants and green algae, photosystem II (PSII) usually combines with light harvesting complex II (LHCII) to form the PSII-LHCII supercomplex. Under low-light conditions, the PSII-LHCII ...

Photosynthesis takes place in specialized membrane systems, made up of stacked disks linked together by unstacked planar leaflets. A team of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich has now ...

Allelic chlorina-f2 mutants of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) growing under different light and temperature conditions demonstrated that the chlorophyll b-free chlorina-f2f2 and chlorina-f2101 express a ...

"All living beings, including us, depend on photosynthesis," says Prof. Wataru Sakamoto of the Institute of Plant Science and Resources at Okayama University, Japan, as he begins to explain the core ...

The plant chloroplast thylakoid is the site of the photosynthetic electron transfer chain that converts absorbed solar energy into chemical energy in the form of ATP and NADPH mainly for use in CO 2 ...

The photosynthetic machinery is housed within the thylakoid membranes of plants, algae and cyanobacteria; we study how these complexes are arranged and how the membrane morphology adapts to changing ...

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.