Structures inside rare bacteria are similar to those that power photosynthesis in plants today, suggesting the process is older than assumed. Structures inside rare bacteria are similar to those that ...

The record of the coevolution of oxygenic phototrophs and the environment is preserved in three forms: genomes of modern organisms, diverse geochemical signals of surface oxidation and diagnostic ...

A new study sheds new light on the evolution of photosynthesis in plants and algae, which could help to improve crop production. A Rutgers-led study sheds new light on the evolution of photosynthesis ...

The latter group includes 35 families of uncharacterized proteins, which could also be involved in photosynthesis. Only a few components of cyanobacterial photosynthetic machinery are represented in ...

Water hints at the possibility of life, but oxygen means that possibility has been realized. For only life can release free oxygen, in any amount, into the air. - Nick Lane, from ‘Oxygen’ While genome ...

The development of the biochemical process of photosynthesis is one of nature's most important events, but how did it actually happen? This is a question that molecular biology has first posed, and ...

Molecular phylogenies of bacteria are mostly built on the analysis of conserved molecules such as 16S ribosomal RNA. But there is evidence for horizontal gene transfer of photosynthesis genes, so any ...

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Fertilizer does not actually “feed” your plants. Let’s be clear, plants get their food from sunlight. I know we may have heard about photosynthesis and not paid much mind to this process. I was the ...

Structures inside rare bacteria are similar to those that power photosynthesis in plants today, suggesting the process is older than assumed. The finding could mean the evolution of photosynthesis ...