Green energy management: How plants cope with variable light conditions
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 10:21
in Biology & Nature
Plants use energy derived from sunlight to form sugars from carbon dioxide and water by the process of photosynthesis. Recent discoveries made by a research group at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich, Germany, provide new insights into the control circuit that enables plants to make optimal use of incident light.