Close-Up View of Algae's Carbon Concentrating Mechanism (IMAGE)
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Two new Princeton-led studies provide a detailed look at an essential part of algae's growth machinery, with the eventual goal of applying this knowledge to improving the growth of crops. In this image, the researchers used a technique called cryo-electron tomography to image an algal structure called the pyrenoid, which concentrates carbon dioxide to make it more readily available for photosynthetic enzymes (purple). The yellow tubules inside the green tubes are thought to bring carbon and other materials into the pyrenoid.
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Image courtesy of Benjamin Engel, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
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