In some orchids, photosynthesis is out and parasitism is in. Instead of making food from sunlight, some of these plants have become parasitic and primarily suck nutrients out of the fungi in their ...

Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article. Published as part of Journal of Proteome Research special issue ...

Below the threshold no assimilation takes place. Thus it seems that only about two-thirds of the atmospheric carbon dioxide is available for photosynthesis”.

Photosynthesis is how plants make oxygen and sugar using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. This process is almost loss-free and very fast. A new study at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) ...