Globally, trees originating from high-rainfall tropical regions typically exhibit lower rates of light-saturated net CO2 assimilation (A) compared with those from high-rainfall temperate environments, ...

Randy Moore and Clanton C. Black, Jr. Nitrogen assimilation in crabgrass Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop., was studied by comparing leaf extracts with isolated mesophyll cell and bundle sheath strand ...

Researchers from the University of Illinois have proven that increases in mesophyll conductance can be engineered and that it leads to increases in photosynthesis. These results were shown in a model ...

IN a recent communication 1, it was recorded that a number of hydrocarbons, including pure paraffin, readily entered the air-spaces of a leaf strip placed vertically in contact with the surface of ...

Mesophyll conductance, or the ease with which CO 2 can diffuse through a leaf’s cells before reaching the location where it undergoes carbon fixation, plays a key role in photosynthesis. CO 2 faces ...

In a study recently published in the PNAS on Jan. 30, a research team led by Prof. CAO Xiaofeng from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in ...

Is the leaf a good model for a solar cell? As is so often the case with biomimetics, the answer must be: yes and no. In its favour, the leaf is made at little energy cost with literally 'green' ...

In a recent study,botanists investigated the effects of increasing the amount of carbon dioxide channels in plant membranes, but could not detect any impact on photosynthesis in model tobacco plants.