{"id":141298,"date":"2022-06-28T17:09:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T22:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/plants-appear-to-be-breaking-biochemistry-rules"},"modified":"2022-06-28T17:09:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T22:09:12","slug":"plants-appear-to-be-breaking-biochemistry-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/plants-appear-to-be-breaking-biochemistry-rules","title":{"rendered":"Plants Appear to Be Breaking Biochemistry Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plants-appear-to-be-breaking-biochemistry-rules2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude33!!!!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers have just discovered a previously unknown process that makes sense of the \u2018secret decisions\u2019 plants make when releasing carbon back into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found that plants control their respiration in a way we did not expect, they control how much of the carbon from photosynthesis they keep to build biomass by using a metabolic channel,\u201d University of Western Australia plant biochemist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwa.edu.au\/profile\/harvey-millar\">Harvey Millar<\/a> told ScienceAlert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis happens right as the step before they decide to burn a compound called pyruvate to make and release CO<sub>2<\/sub> back to the atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude33!!!! Researchers have just discovered a previously unknown process that makes sense of the \u2018secret decisions\u2019 plants make when releasing carbon back into the atmosphere. \u201cWe found that plants control their respiration in a way we did not expect, they control how much of the carbon from photosynthesis they keep to build biomass by using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141298","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}