Hacker News with Generative AI: Photosynthesis

Chicken-or-egg evolutionary problem solved by missing link molecule (cosmosmagazine.com)
An accidental discovery could provide clues to a chicken-or-egg question which has puzzled scientists for decades: what came first – oxygen production by photosynthesis or oxygen consumption by aerobic metabolism?
Science, Biology, Evolution, Photosynthesis, Aerobic Metabolism
5 points by geox 7 days ago | 0 comments
Orchid's nutrient theft from fungi shows photosynthesis-parasitism continuum (phys.org)
When the orchid Oreorchis patens happens to grow close to rotten wood, it shifts its fungal symbionts to those that decompose the wood and significantly increases the amount of nutrients it takes from them—without ceasing to employ photosynthesis. As a result, the plants are bigger and produce more flowers.
Plants, Symbiosis, Fungi, Photosynthesis, Science
105 points by wglb 63 days ago | 13 comments
How does life happen when there's barely any light? (quantamagazine.org)
Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever observed in nature.
Science, Biology, Arctic, Photosynthesis, Environment
56 points by abe94 78 days ago | 41 comments
How does life happen when there’s barely any light? (quantamagazine.org)
Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever observed in nature.
Science, Biology, Arctic, Photosynthesis
31 points by bookofjoe 82 days ago | 1 comments