Cyanobacteria can efficiently harvest sunlight with smart antenna
Thursday, October 15, 2015 - 07:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Cyanobacteria have an interesting trick to harvest sunlight during light fluctuations. In darkness, the cells prepare for a subsequent increase in light intensity by adopting a larger light-harvesting antenna. Researchers of Wageningen University and the University of Turku, Finland describe the mechanism in a study that appeared online in Nature's Scientific Reports.