| Description | Monday 12 to Tuesday 13 November 2007 Discussion Meeting at the Royal Society
By Professor Euan Nisbet, Dr Derek Bendall, Professor Christopher Howe and Dr Ellen Nisbet.
2007 marks the 70th anniversary of the demonstration that chloroplasts catalyse the photolysis of water into O2 and the 60th anniversary of the discovery of Rubisco. The photosynthetic apparatus and Rubisco have fed the biosphere, remade the atmosphere, and directed the global greenhouse.
The meeting will combine biochemistry and geological studies, addressing the evolutionary history of CO2 fixation from the Archaean, via cyanobacteria to eukaryotic plankton and plants.
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