Tag Archives: photosynthesis

Horizontal gene transfer from bacteria and archaea to a subset of red algae (called Galdieria sulphurarea) appears to have occurred over evolutionary time — which partially explains this remarkable extremophile’s multifaceted talents 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation Gerald Schönknecht, Wei-Hua Chen, Chad M. Ternes, Guillaume G. Barbier, Roshan P. Shrestha, Mario Stanke, Andrea Bräutigam, Brett J. Baker, Jillian F. Banfield, R. Michael Garavito, Kevin Carr, Curtis Wilkerson, Stefan A. Rensing, David Gagneul, Nicholas E. Dickenson, Christine Oesterhelt, Martin J. Lercher, and Andreas P. M. Weber, Gene Transfer [...]

Study suggests that trees sequester less carbon dioxide than climate models expected — by about 3 percent 0

Citation William L. Bauerle, Ram Oren, Danielle A. Way, Song S. Qian, Paul C. Stoy, Peter E. Thornton, Joseph D. Bowden, Forrest M. Hoffman, and Robert F. Reynolds, Photoperiodic regulation of the seasonal pattern of photosynthetic capacity and the implications for carbon cycling, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [PNAS], doi: 10.1073/pnas.1119131109 (14 May [...]