photosynthetic
/ˌfəʊtə(ʊ)sɪnˈθɛtɪk
/adjective
Relating to or involved in the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize nutrients from carbon dioxide and water: sunlight captured by photosynthetic organisms the photosynthetic capacity of leaves...
- Genetic engineering offers further opportunities for more efficient fertilizer use by increasing the photosynthetic efficiency of plants.
- He is the plant physiologist who leads the Photosynthetic Research Unit in Urbana, Illinois.
- They contain chlorophyll, the same photosynthetic pigment that terrestrial plants use.
Derivatives
photosynthetically
- The plastids are in the early stage of development to photosynthetically active chloroplasts.
- Cotyledons in some species are very small and are difficult to characterize photosynthetically by most techniques.
- Photosynthetically fixed carbon dioxide was found in sterols made in the cytoplasm, but the cause of this has not been established.