Cadmium is a non-biodegradable and easily absorbed, translocated and accumulated element in plant tissues. This means that it is highly available to plant root systems and can be toxic even at low concentrations...
Tag - photosystem II
William Salter
Reflections on “Chlorophyll fluorescence – a practical guide”
Philip White talks to Giles Johnson and finds out that what some people call a waste of time, other people call a citation classic.
Philip White
Potential risk of photo-damage in Antarctic photosynthetic organisms
Light is indispensable for photosynthetic organisms, but excess light energy causes damage in photosystems and readily leads to cell death in severe environments such as Antarctica. Kosugi et al. determine reaction...
Alex Assiry
Roles for calcium: numero uno
One important function of calcium is the part it plays in the water-splitting reaction of photosynthesis.
Nigel Chaffey
Free—open access paper: Salinity tolerance ecophysiology of Equisetum giganteum in South America
In river valleys of the world’s driest desert (The Atacama of South America) large stands of giant horsetail ( Equisetum giganteum) are found to tolerate soil water salinity up to at least half that of seawater. This...
Lulu Stader
Carnivorous plants prefer to kill in broad daylight
I owe thanks to Dr Andrej Pavlovič for being a patient guinea pig with my first press-release (you can find it on Science Daily) and to Lizzie Shannon-Little at OUP for helping put it out. It’s good timing because...
Alun Salt
