Residues from plants and animals and microbial biomass can be converted by microorganisms to useful energy outputs, including methane, hydrogen or electricity. Microbial biomass can also be ...

BEIJING -- A Chinese research team has developed a carbon-based nanomaterial from agricultural waste biomass that can enhance plant photosynthesis and potentially boost crop growth. According to ...

Photosynthesis is the central process by which plants build up biomass using light, water, and carbon dioxide from the air.

On one hand, the boosted photosynthesis and consequently heightened carbohydrate production ups the biomass of C3 plants, a group that contains the vast majority of vegetation on Earth. But multiple ...

A hack to the photosynthesis of tobacco increased its growth by 40 percent, researchers reported today in Science. The team now hopes to make similar changes to soybeans, potatoes, and other food ...

They can represent either numbers of a particular organism or their biomass, which is living tissue. A pyramid of numbers approximately shows the numerical proportion of different organisms at ...

Researchers achieved a breakthrough in understanding the vulnerability of microbes to the alcohols they produce during fermentation of plant biomass. One limitation of producing biofuel is that ...