This study involved growing both modern and ancestral soybeans from seeds in a greenhouse and measuring mesophyll conductance following shade-to-sun transitions using concurrent measurements of ...

More than 3 billion years ago, on an Earth entirely covered with water, photosynthesis first evolved in ancient bacteria. In ...

Scientists have traced the evolutionary path from C3 to C4 photosynthesis, discovering key regulatory changes that could ...

Around 95 percent of plants use C3 photosynthesis, in which mesophyll cells — green spongy cells that live inside leaves — ...

Key to the new estimate is a better representation of a process called mesophyll diffusion — how OCS and CO2 move from leaves into chloroplasts where carbon fixation occurs. Understanding mesophyll ...

Nitrogen and potassium are fundamental nutrients for plant growth, but imbalances frequently disrupt agricultural systems.