{"id":220176,"date":"2025-08-15T04:24:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/researchers-track-how-iron-deficiency-disrupts-photosynthesis-in-crucial-ocean-algae"},"modified":"2025-08-15T04:24:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:24:54","slug":"researchers-track-how-iron-deficiency-disrupts-photosynthesis-in-crucial-ocean-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/researchers-track-how-iron-deficiency-disrupts-photosynthesis-in-crucial-ocean-algae","title":{"rendered":"Researchers track how iron deficiency disrupts photosynthesis in crucial ocean algae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-track-how-iron-deficiency-disrupts-photosynthesis-in-crucial-ocean-algae.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next time you breathe, consider this: Photosynthesis of algae, powered by iron dust in the ocean, made it possible.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a Rutgers University study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2511916122\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i> pulls back the curtain on this vital process.<\/p>\n<p>Iron is a critical micronutrient for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/marine+phytoplankton\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">marine phytoplankton<\/a>, the microscopic algae that form the foundation of the ocean\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/food+webs\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">food webs<\/a>. It is deposited into the world\u2019s oceans as dust from deserts and arid areas as well as from glacial meltwater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you breathe, consider this: Photosynthesis of algae, powered by iron dust in the ocean, made it possible. Now, a Rutgers University study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pulls back the curtain on this vital process. Iron is a critical micronutrient for marine phytoplankton, the microscopic algae that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220176","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=220176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}