How do plants make oxygen? Ask cyanobacteria
Friday, March 31, 2017 - 20:01
in Biology & Nature
Researchers reveal the family tree of the group of microorganisms responsible for 'inventing' the oxygen-producing photosynthesis that lets you breathe. They added the genomes of 41 uncultured microorganisms, which helped to pin down the precise point in the evolution of cyanobacteria at which oxygenic photosynthesis arose.