Plants can reshape a key protein to survive heat and cold, helping photosynthesis continue as temperatures swing.

Ancient lycophytes may have survived extreme heat during Earth’s worst extinction using a rare photosynthesis method.

Learn how ancient plants survived extreme heat after the Permian–Triassic mass extinction and what their strategy could mean ...

Following the worst mass extinction event on Earth, the land was not entirely barren of life. In the wake of this cataclysm, ...

In efforts to better understand how plant photosynthesis is regulated, scientists are studying how Rubisco activity responds ...

Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a ...

Researchers from Cornell, Texas A&M, and Stockholm University have discovered that plants can swap small subunits of the Rubisco enzyme to adapt photosynthesis efficiency to changing temperatures.

C4 photosynthesis represents a striking example of convergent evolution, where multiple plant lineages have independently modified an ancestral C3 pathway to enhance carbon fixation efficiency. This ...

Most of the carbon fixed by plants through photosynthesis is ultimately stored in the cell wall, primarily in the form of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A weird-looking parasitic plant has discarded all its photosynthesis machinery – and nevertheless has found a way to thrive. A new ...

Epsom salt, chemically known as magnesium sulfate, is often touted as a beneficial supplement for tomato plants. The ...

Scientists think they've found a way to harvest more electricity from plants, a finding that could ripple out to other renewable energy technologies. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011.