photosynthesis

Instead of relying on photosynthesis - a process involving sunlight, water and carbon dioxide - to create food and oxygen to survive, the flowers can also take energy from fungus in woodland soils.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

For the next 50 million years they had no leaves and conducted photosynthesis in their bare stems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Eventually plants trapped so much carbon dioxide, which is necessary for photosynthesis, that CO2 levels in the atmosphere plummeted by 90%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Plants rely on it during photosynthesis to harvest light, while animals use related processes to efficiently convert food into energy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Learning about photosynthesis, we kept one tray in the dark and one in the light, and measured them every day with metric rulers.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

He suspects that these minerals may have been deposited while the earth's atmosphere was in a transition state, just beginning to accumulate the oxygen that was being released by the photosyntheses of slow-living, primitive plants.

From Time Magazine Archive