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title: "What does the plant do?"
author: "Otho Mantegazza"
date: "2019-02-05T13:52:05Z"
link: "https://bookdown.org/otho/ps_booklet/"
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A Planter’s Punch that quickly got out of hand [...] I wrote this booklet a couple of years ago, while I was working at CEPLAS. – Plants collect energy from sunlight and use it to produce fruits that we eat, fibers that we wear and much, much more; in a process called photosynthesis. This process is fundamental for our life on Earth, and it has been intensively studied for centuries by scientists. Scientists like me, like us. Here I’ll give you a glimpse of our scientific research. After a very short introduction to photosynthesis, I’ll explain to you one of its details and one of the methods  ...
