Harvesting the Sun

Synopsis: A review of our knowledge of how plants utilise sunlight, including the research that led to the 1988 Nobel Prize for chemistry. Plants produce oxygen when exposed to light, and produce starch. The green colour is due to chlorophyll containing organelles; chloroplast has the ability to trap and store the energy of sunlight. Some simple experiments show how sunlight is used by the thylakoids within the chloroplast. Also describes the results of some recent research about the molecular mechanism of phytosyntesis.
Series: Biology: Form and Function, Course S203
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.
Year of production: 1991
Availability: Off-air recording licence
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Subjects: Biology
Keywords: botany; chlorophyll; chloroplasts; photosynthesis; physiology - plant; phytosynthesis; plants

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