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1908 Bot. Gaz. 46 69 The alga, photosynthesizing sugar, is osmotically relieved of a considerable portion of the food.

1921 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 119 1029 Carbohydrates can be photosynthesised from carbon dioxide and water in two stages.

1927 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 116 212 These [results] convinced us that it is possible by the use of coloured powders to photosynthesise organic compounds from carbonic acid with the help of visible light.

1968 J. E. Gordon New Sci. Strong Materials vi. 136 Fungi..cannot photosynthesize sugars for themselves.

1992 M. Ingrouille Diversity & Evol. Land Plants 24 Plants are autotrophic, photosynthesizing their own sugars from carbon dioxide and water.

1918 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 4 89 Some plants which are deep green may not photosynthesize as rapidly as those which possess less chlorophyll.

1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xv. Plate 63 (caption) Mistletoe on Mountain Ash (Rowan Tree). This partial parasite is green and photosynthesizes.

1974 A. J. Huxley Plant & Planet iii. 18 Some bacteria..can either photosynthesize or, if in the dark, gain energy from decomposing organic matter.

1990 S. Elsworth Dict. of Environment 467 The blanket of algae cuts off the supply of light to submerged plants, reducing their ability to photosynthesize, so that they die from lack of oxygen.

1910 F. Keeble Plant-animals iii. 79 From the photosynthesised carbohydrate are derived the cellulose substances.

1961 Proc. Royal Soc. 1960–61 B. 153 289 All newly photosynthesized organic material will also have the same initial proportion of radioactive to inactive carbon.

2001 Science (Nexis) 3 Aug. 839 Nearly all photosynthesized organic matter..recombines with [O.sub.2] via decay or respiration.

1957 Amer. Midland Naturalist 58 438 Four of the 10 species are photosynthesizers, while the remainder are green throughout the season.

1990 J. Gribbin Hothouse Earth ii. 44 This was due to the decline in carbon dioxide concentrations as the first photosynthesizers (bacteria) used the gas as a source of carbon to build their bodies.

1905 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 76 87 The proportion of photosynthetic rays in the reduced radiation falling on the leaf..also represents the percentage of photosynthesizing energy in the original unscreened solar radiation.

1973 Sci. Amer. Oct. 83/3 They supplied carbon dioxide labeled with carbon 14 to photosynthesizing sugarcane plants.

1994 Sci. Amer. Oct. 49/1 One theory advanced by James E. Lovelock, an originator of the Gaia hypothesis, assumed that photosynthesizing microorganisms, such as phytoplankton, would be very productive in a high-carbon dioxide environment.