{"id":122582,"date":"2021-05-14T16:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T23:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/researchers-trace-path-of-light-in-photosynthesis"},"modified":"2021-05-14T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T23:22:20","slug":"researchers-trace-path-of-light-in-photosynthesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/researchers-trace-path-of-light-in-photosynthesis","title":{"rendered":"Researchers trace path of light in photosynthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-trace-path-of-light-in-photosynthesis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three billion years ago, light first zipped through chlorophyll within tiny reaction centers, the first step plants and photosynthetic bacteria take to convert light into food.<\/p>\n<p>Heliobacteria, a type of bacteria that uses photosynthesis to generate energy, has reaction centers thought to be similar to those of the common ancestors for all photosynthetic organisms. Now, a University of Michigan team has determined the first steps in converting <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light<\/a> into energy for this bacterium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study highlights the different ways in which nature has made use of the basic reaction center architecture that emerged over 3 billion years ago,\u201d said lead author and U-M physicist Jennifer Ogilvie. \u201cWe want to ultimately understand how energy moves through the system and ends up creating what we call the \u2018charge-separated state.\u2019 This state is the battery that drives the engine of photosynthesis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three billion years ago, light first zipped through chlorophyll within tiny reaction centers, the first step plants and photosynthetic bacteria take to convert light into food. Heliobacteria, a type of bacteria that uses photosynthesis to generate energy, has reaction centers thought to be similar to those of the common ancestors for all photosynthetic organisms. Now, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}