January 20, 2025 • Temperatures in cities are rising around the world and urban heat stress is already a major problem. Extensive surfaces of man-made materials absorb the sun's energy, and lead ...

Bacterial microcompartments are specialized organelles found in various bacteria that encapsulate specific enzymes and reactions, enhancing metabolic efficiency. Among these, carboxysomes are ...

After being absorbed through the stomata, carbon dioxide attaches to Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate (RuBP), an organic molecule that "kickstarts" a part of photosynthesis called the Calvin cycle.

Although no structure has been reported for l-ribulose-5-phosphate 4-epimerase, it functions through carbon-carbon bond cleavage and is thought to have a similar structure to class II (metal ...

Asia minor bluegrass (Polypogon fugax Nees ex Steud.) is an annual or biennial hexaploid grass species widely spreading in Asia, Eurasia, and North America (Wang et al., 2016; Akopian and Ghukasyan, ...