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 ...

“But if you are bound to nature for light, would you be willing to consider a different experience of illumination?” The team is currently working on making the plants brighter and embedding ...

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 ...

Figure 3: Average projections of the PSII complexes from Arabidopsis Lhcb2 plants. Figure 4 ... detected automatically by the software, and background for each lane was subtracted using the ...

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 ...

The development, published today in the journal Nature Methods, reveals how coloured light can be used to control biological processes in plants by switching different genes on and off.

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 ...

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.

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 mastered the art of harvesting sunlight billions of years ago, using elegant rings of pigments in their leaves. Now, ...

Snowpack reflects back 75-95% of the sun’s light rather than getting absorbed into the snow. However, multiple studies have shown that there is still photosynthetic activity underneath the snow. In ...