What is the maximum efficiency with which photosynthesis can convert solar energy into biomass?
By Xinguang Zhu, S. Long, D. Ort. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2008
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Subfields: Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
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- Biofuels, facts, fantasy, and feasibility (2009, background): “The corresponding figure for PAR for the United States, based on a more accurate 48.7% of total incident solar radiation (Zhu et al. 2008) would be equivalent to 0.1164×60×60×12=5028 kcal m−2 for a 12-h day and this, in turn, equates to 5,028/4.25=1183 g/12-h day and values of 11.83 and 54.4 for 1%…”
- Aquatic phototrophs: efficient alternatives to land-based crops for biofuels. (2008, background): “7% for C4 crops (maize) across a full growing season based on calculated solar radiation intercepted by the leaf canopy [14].”
- Chlorophyll Fluorescence Applications in Microalgal Mass Cultures (2010, background): “…figure of photosynthetic efficiency (photon energy converted into biomass energy) of about 4.5% for C3 plants or microalgae by using “educated guesswork” and detailed consideration of the partial reactions involved (e.g. Boardman 1980; Benemann and Oswald 1996; Zhu et al. 2008; Walker 2009).”
- The developmental dynamics of the maize leaf transcriptome (2010, background): “With this foundation, it should be possible to develop complex models in which, for example, kinetic models of primary carbon metabolis”
- Regulation of Transpiration to Improve Crop Water Use (2009, background): “Recent reviews detail how crop yield has been improved by genetic traits that enhance photosynthetic efficiency, nitrogen assimilation, seed yield, source-sink balance, and radiation use efficiency (Sinclair et al., 2004; Sharma-Natu and Ghildiyal, 2005; Long et al., 2006; Zhu et al., 2008).”
- NAD+ Biosynthesis and Signaling in Plants (2018, neutral): “is produced by Rubisco oxygenase activity (Zhu et al., 2008) for every four turns of the Calvin–Benson cycle.”
- Advances and perspectives in using microalgae to produce biodiesel (2011, methodology): “[34] used, in turn, a flat plate-airlift photobioreactor, and determined the optimum downcomer-to-riser area ratio specifically for cultivation of H.”
- Constraints to commercialization of algal fuels. (2013, neutral): “6% (Zhu et al., 2008), that is 4.”
- Improving photosynthetic efficiency for greater yield. (2010, methodology): “A detailed stepwise biophysical and biochemical analysis of efficiency of energy transduction from interception of radiation to carbohydrate formation has been presented previously (142), and a slightly modified analysis is explained in Figure 2.”