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.

By engineering photosynthetic cyanobacteria to live symbiotically inside yeast cells, the bacteria-yeast hybrids can produce important hydrocarbons, paving new biotechnical pathways to non ...

A study published in Science Advances has revealed promising strategies to significantly improve crop yields by addressing ...

Microbiologists Rachael Morgan-Kiss and Xin Wang recently received a $750,000 grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) to research how Antarctic algae use an alternative pathway during photosynthesis ...

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 ...

Among the plant metabolisms in use today, some use significantly more efficient carbon fixation pathways, while others end up wasting a lot of the energy they obtained from photosynthesis with ...

A biohybrid system combines polymer nanosheets with E. coli to improve hydrogen production by capturing near-infrared light ...

Microalgae, belonging to the diverse group of photosynthetic microorganisms, play pivotal roles in global ecosystems and ...

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 ...

Photorespiration occurs when the enzyme RuBisCO, essential for photosynthesis ... that overcoming photorespiration through engineered pathways can provide a dual benefit: increasing carbon ...