WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2017 – The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) today announced a $15 million contribution – its biggest grant to date – to a five-year, $45-million research ...

An £800,000 research project aims to artificially replicate the process of photosynthesis in a bid to harness the sun's energy more efficiently. The project has earmarked the process by which plants, ...

An ambitious project to re-engineer photosynthesis in rice, led by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) through a global consortium of scientists, has received a grant of US$11 million ...

Many exciting areas of nanotechnology research are converging on artificial photosynthesis. The connection between the health of our plant and the humans it sustains is now part of a growing field ...

Thomas Faunce receives funding from the Australian research Council under a Future Fellowship. Plants have been making fuel and food from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide for billions of years. Oil, ...

Plants fuel the world with their ability to convert sunlight into a usable form of energy. Now, the Department of Energy is putting up $122 million to help humans capture the energy of the sun and ...

The Rheticus II project combines bioreactor and renewables-powered electrolyser to produce industrial chemicals from carbon dioxide Evonik and Siemens’ joint Rheticus project has entered its second ...

Students will conduct hands-on laboratory research in the field of photosynthesis and plant molecular biology, working with genetically modified plants (Nicotiana tabacum, a well-established model ...

An Australian plan to make food from greenhouse gases is gathering momentum, with more than 30 scientists now involved in a project to build artificial 'plants'. But its vision is more like a factory ...