What is the minimum of light required for plants to grow?
🌿☀️ Plants can grow with much less light than previously thought, according to a new study.
✅ Researchers lowered light sensors into Arctic water to a depth of 50 metres (164 feet) to test how low light levels must become before plant life ceases to exist and found that tiny water-based organisms called microalgae were able to perform photosynthesis with very little light ⬆️.
✅ The microalgae carry out this process at the lowest light levels ever recorded – just 0.04 micromoles of photons.
✅ This isn’t very far from what computer simulations predict to be the lowest light possible in any circumstances – 0.01 micromoles of photons.
✅ Typical light conditions outside on a clear day are between 1,500-2,000 micromoles of photons – more than 37,000-50,000 times the amount of light required by those microalgae.
ℹ️ This research can potentially make it easier to grow plants in areas with little sunlight and even in space.
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🌿☀️ Plants can grow with much less light than previously thought, according to a new study.
✅ Researchers lowered light sensors into Arctic water to a depth of 50 metres (164 feet) to test how low light levels must become before plant life ceases to exist and found that tiny water-based organisms called microalgae were able to perform photosynthesis with very little light ⬆️.
✅ The microalgae carry out this process at the lowest light levels ever recorded – just 0.04 micromoles of photons.
✅ This isn’t very far from what computer simulations predict to be the lowest light possible in any circumstances – 0.01 micromoles of photons.
✅ Typical light conditions outside on a clear day are between 1,500-2,000 micromoles of photons – more than 37,000-50,000 times the amount of light required by those microalgae.
ℹ️ This research can potentially make it easier to grow plants in areas with little sunlight and even in space.
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