Eye protection must be worn. Starch is produced from glucose made during photosynthesis. Areas of the leaf exposed to the light should turn blue–black when iodine is added proving starch is present.

Researchers in the UK have developed a new spray coating for greenhouses that optimizes the wavelength of light shining onto ...

As the planet warms and global population grows, a looming food crisis is spurring biochemists to reengineer one of the most ...

When active filaments are exposed to localized illumination, they accumulate into stable structures along the boundaries of ...

All about the way plants turn sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into food.

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

photosynthesis has recently become useful in distinctly modern ways. Some plant scientists want to optimize its mechanisms to engineer more productive crops, for example, and beyond that it sheds ...