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• a  relating to or using or formed by photosynthesis

• They knew that chlorophyll by itself has no photosynthetic power.
• The earth's once ammonia-and methane-rich atmosphere has since been recast through the release of subterranean gases and the evolution of oxygen-producing photosynthetic plants.
• He's developing a new method for making hydrogen fuel from water, taking his cue from plants' photosynthetic ability to split water using sunlight.

• nonphotosynthetic

News & Articles

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• Bizarre Ehux Algae Adapts To Environment With Variable Genome
  redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online An international team of researchers has sequenced the genome of Emiliania huxleyi , a species of single-celled photosynthetic marine algae that they say is responsible for removing carbon dioxide from the air, supplying the oxygen we breath, and even forming the basis of marine food chains. The results of their work has just been published in ...
  June 13, 2013 - redOrbit
• Chalking up a marine blooming alga: Genome fills a gap in the tree of life
  Carbon dioxide is released when the calcium carbonate "armor" of the photosynthetic alga Emiliania huxleyi forms, but Ehux can trap as much as 20 percent of organic carbon derived from carbon dioxide in some marine ecosystems. Its versatility in either contributing to primary production or adding to carbon dioxide emissions makes Ehux a critical player in the marine carbon cycle. The Ehux genome ...
  June 12, 2013 - Science Daily

Quotes

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• Chris McKay in Space Ref (press release)
  During one of his presentations, Chris asked the question "why isn't Greenland green? Why is the ice-cap of Greenland, or the Antarctic for that matter, not covered with photosynthetic organisms tinting the snow and ice green despite the abundant...
• Lester R. Brown in ABC News
  Most of the things scientists can think of to raise grain yields, they're already done,Brown said. "When you get to the limits of photosynthetic efficiency, there's not much more you can do."
• Craig Venter in ZDNet
  Rapid advances in high throughput DNA sequencing and synthesis, as well as high performance computing and bioinformatics, now enable us to synthesize novel photosynthetic and metabolic pathways,Venter said in a statement earlier this year....