Substance in photosynthesis was at work in ancient, methane-producing microbes 2.5 billion years ago
Friday, February 7, 2014 - 09:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A team of researchers led by Virginia Tech and University of California, Berkeley, scientists has discovered that a regulatory process that turns on photosynthesis in plants at daybreak likely developed on Earth in ancient microbes 2.5 billion years ago, long before oxygen became available.