That process, called carbon fixation, resulted in the assembly of two three-carbon molecules called 3-phosphoglycerate (3-PGA). The energy stored in ATP and NADPH helps turn these 3-PGA molecules into ...

Even when the plant is not actively growing or storing products of photosynthesis, routes exist for the "utilization" of absorbed light energy through energy-consuming biochemical pathways that do ...

A research group led by Prof. DANG Fei from the Institute of Soil Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in ...

A fundamental understanding of photosynthesis in nature is crucial for applied photosynthesis, which may well prove to play a key role in overcoming some of the greatest challenges that humankind is ...

The particular energy pathway that a cell employs depends ... In plant and other photosynthetic cells, chloroplasts also have an electron transport chain that harvests solar energy.

Catabolic – this type of pathway releases energy and is used to break down large molecules into smaller ones (degradation). An example of an anabolic reaction is photosynthesis, where plants ...