The collection of sunlight for food/fuel can be hazardous for plants (and algae ... back to efficient utilization of the low background level of light for photosynthesis. Zeaxanthin-facilitated ...

in higher plants, requires the luminal pH sensor PsbS and other yet unidentified components of the photosystem II antenna. Both trimeric light-harvesting complex II (LHCII) and monomeric LHC ...

Together with an interdisciplinary research team, the group now presents its findings on the processes involved in plant reactions to different light conditions in a current publication in Nature ...

Plants rely on their ability to sense light for survival ... The findings, published today in Nature, may have implications for agricultural and "green" bioengineering practices.

Recent research has shown that plants help themselves grow by releasing volatile organic compounds. These chemicals form a mist of aerosols above the vegetation that blocks some of the direct light ...

A light-bulb moment? Plants seem to pipe sunlight directly down into underground roots to help them grow. Light receptors in stems, leaves and flowers have long been known to regulate plant growth.

But the plants, and the colors are real. It's the result of a cool trick of nature. All plants reflect light. Leaves reflect green, and flowers reflect red, or yellow, or whatever. But plants also ...

Before Homo sapiens arrived, Europe's forests were not dense and dark but shaped by open and light-rich woodland landscapes. A new study from Aarhus University shows that most native forest plants are ...

In a stroke of serendipity, a team of scientists led by botanist Sabulal Baby put several carnivorous plants they'd been using for unrelated experiments under ultraviolet light, including ...