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Scientists at the University of California Riverside (UC Riverside) have successfully decoded previously unknown signals that plants send to themselves to initiate photosynthesis. Led by UCR botany professor Meng Chen, the research team found four proteins containing building blocks that trigger photosynthesis.
Scientists have been perplexed by the signals plants transmit to start photosynthesis, the process of converting sunlight into sugars, for decades
[For decades, scientists have been stumped by the signals plants send themselves to initiate photosynthesis, the process of turning sunlight into sugars. UC Riverside researchers have now decoded those previously opaque signals.]
The signals that plants send to begin photosynthesis, the process of converting sunlight into sugars, have baffled scientists for decades
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