How Plants Do It: Light, Oxygen, Action!
Vittal Yachandra, University of California-Berkeley
Photosynthesis is the way by which plants use sunlight to generate energy. In the process, they also use water to create oxygen, which is critical to life on earth. Oxygen created by the first primitive photosynthetic bacteria transformed the earth, making complex life as we know it possible. In this lecture, Yachandra will describe the evolution of photosynthesis and how understanding this process may help in the development of artificial systems to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and combat global warming.