Study can help design efficient artificial leaves, fuel cells, and other systems that mimic photosynthesis. Findings published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A newly discovered pathway in a plant process could help farmers grow more successful crops, particularly in places where harsh, high light stresses plants.

This process is what scientists have dubbed photosynthesis. Photosynthesis starts with roots, stomata, and chloroplasts, biological structures found exclusively in plants.

Photosynthesis is a marvellous process: plants use it to produce sugar molecules and oxygen from the simple starting materials carbon dioxide and water.

Now, a new study suggests microplastics are hindering plants’ ability to generate energy through photosynthesis, with devastating potential impacts to key crops.

The gene plays an important role in photosynthesis, the process plants use to convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into glucose ­— the building block for cellulose, starch and other ...

More than 3 billion years ago, on an Earth entirely covered with water, photosynthesis first evolved in ancient bacteria. In the following millions of years, those bacteria evolved into plants ...

Photosynthesis is the process plants, algae and some bacteria use to turn sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into sugar and oxygen.