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Capturing Mother Nature at work: seeing how plants make vitamin B6

Vitamins are essential for life. They perform a huge variety of tasks within metabolism, with many helping to promote biochemical reactions in our bodies. In general, we cannot make vitamins from scratch, and so we must obtain them from our diet. Plants and microorganisms can... click to read more

Graham Robinson | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Teresa Fitzpatrick | Professor at Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Arabidopsis thaliana

vitamin B2

crystallography

plants metabolism

Reading time 4 min

published on Feb 16, 2017

Cloudy days cost yield until scientists hacked photosynthesis

Throughout the growing season seemingly benign clouds pass over millions of acres of crops and inadvertently rob plants of their productivity, costing untold bushels of potential yield. Researchers recently reported in the journal Science that they have engineered a solution and increased the productivity of... click to read more

Stephen Long | Professor at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois, USA

Katarzyna Głowacka | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois, USA

Johannes Kromdijk | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois

agriculture

GMO

plants metabolism

photosynthesis

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Feb 2, 2017