Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

Trees need sunlight for the same reason you need food. The energy from the Sun’s rays is a crucial ingredient in how plants make their own food that helps them power all their cells. Since trees don’t ...

From left, ORNL's Biruk Feyissa holds a five-month-old poplar tree expressing high levels of the BOOSTER gene, while colleague Wellington Muchero holds a tree of the same age with lower expression of ...

Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in ...

A team of scientists at two Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers have identified a gene in a poplar tree that enhances photosynthesis and can boost tree height by about 30 percent in the ...

Plants have small pores on the underside of their leaves, known as stomata. When the sun rises, these pores open and the plants absorb carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the atmosphere, which they need, in ...

New research finds that urban warming reduces growth and photosynthesis in city trees. The researchers found that insect pests are part of the problem, but that heat itself plays a more significant ...

The basics of photosynthesis are something that every student learns in school: carbon dioxide, water and light in; oxygen ...

San Francisco, California, Feb. 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Living Carbon, a public benefit company enhancing natural solutions in plants to improve carbon capture, has shared new research ...

The photosynthetic performances of two tropical tree species, a pioneer Nauclea diderrichii (De Wilde.) Merrill, and a climax species Entandrophragma angolense (Welw.) C. DC., both from West Africa, ...

Northwestern’s Solar Fuels Institute (SOFI) is working to create a “tree” that replicates photosynthesis by using sunlight, water and concentrated carbon dioxide to produce a liquid fuel strong enough ...