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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Natural Science
MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory

News

Atsuko Kanazawa
December 15, 2021
New limitations to photosynthesis discovered by observing plants in the real world
Using innovative methodologies that combine biology and statistics, researchers from the Kramer lab at the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory (PRL) observe the ways plants respond to their natural environments.
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Atsuko Kanazawa
June 24, 2020
The diverse ways photosynthesis balances its energy budget
A new paper reveals how nature has come up with solutions for photosynthetic organisms to safely harvest sunlight. The paper is included as a chapter in a new book, Photosynthesis in Algae: Biochemical and Physiological Mechanisms, published by Springer.
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Photosynthetic membranes produced by the new visualization method
May 14, 2020
A new method to reveal the molecular landscapes of photosynthetic membranes inside green algae cells
A collaboration with Max Planck Institutes in Germany has led to a new visualization approach that produces a topological view of these native membranes.
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