Scientists have identified one of the earliest multicellular algae. Their new method could help unlock much more information from Precambrian fossils.
Tag - chlorophyll
Alun Salt
Cyanobacteria: Good week, or bad week..? Part IV
This is the last of our quartet of blog posts looking at the newsworthy world of the blue-greens, and looks at those organisms from a different viewpoint… Image: DDDDDDDDD / Wikipedia Cyanobacteria lighting the way for...
Nigel Chaffey
Cyanobacteria: Good week, or bad week..? Part I
This is the first of what is hoped to be a series in which Mr P. Cuttings looks at a group of organisms and tries to decide whether they’ve had a good week, or a bad week. And by way of increasing the intrigue this...
New form of photosynthesis that’s above par
PAR is the acronym for Photosynthetically-Active Radiation, and refers to light with wavelengths of 400 – 700 nm, the so-called visible spectrum, from red to violet. PAR is photosynthetically-active because it...
Skating on thin ice..?
It seems we can expect the Arctic to go green in future years - but that won't be good news for species threatened by Climate Change.
Response of desert moss to increasing nitrogen deposition
Syntrichia caninervis dominates species in moss crusts in many northern hemisphere desert ecosystems, which are facing disturbance from increasing N deposition. Zhang et al. give evidence from simulated N deposition...
botanyone
Responses of beech and spruce foliage to elevated carbon dioxide, increased nitrogen deposition and soil type
Although enhanced carbon fixation by forest trees may contribute significantly to mitigating an increase in atmospheric CO2, capacities for this fixation vary greatly among different tree species and locations. In a...
AoBPLANTS
Black is the new… er… green?
What colour are plants? No, not a stupid question, but I bet you were tempted to answer ‘green’? Which is fair enough; chlorophyll is the major pigment in plants and consequently they do tend to appear green. But! This...
…this month’s most tenuous plant link?
Warning for the zoophobic: this item is about Caenorhabditis elegans – a free-living, transparent nematode {‘roundworm’ –sometimes known as ‘the Arabidopsis of animal biology’ [that’s Arabidopsis (frequently described...
