Solar energy conversion through biology—could it be a practical energy source?

World Energy Outlook

1977 • 7,533 citations

Food Production and the Energy Crisis

1973 • 807 citations

Hydrogen evolution: A major factor affecting the efficiency of nitrogen fixation in nodulated symbionts

1976 • 473 citations

Nitrogen Fixation Research: A Key to World Food?

1975 • 348 citations

Potential for Nitrogen Fixation in Maize Genotypes in Brazil

1975 • 290 citations

Regulation of photorespiration in C3 and C4 species

1975 • 281 citations

Land Degradation: Effects on Food and Energy Resources

1976 • 222 citations

Hydrogen Evolution by a Chloroplast-Ferredoxin-Hydrogenase System

1973 • 218 citations

Energy and Land Constraints in Food Protein Production

1975 • 204 citations

Solar Energy by Photosynthesis

1974 • 186 citations

H+-adenosine triphosphatase and membrane energy coupling

1977 • 184 citations

Improving the Efficiency of Photosynthesis

1975 • 176 citations

Energy production by microbial photosynthesis

1977 • 171 citations

Biological Nitrogen Fixation for Food and Fiber Production

1977 • 161 citations

Energy Use in Rural India

1976 • 135 citations

The Control of Photosynthetic Carbon Metabolism

1971 • 131 citations

PHOTOSYNTHESIS AS A RESOURCE FOR ENERGY AND MATERIALS*

1976 • 127 citations

Plant Crops as a Source of Fuel and Hydrocarbon-Like Materials

1977 • 126 citations

Prolonged production of hydrogen gas by a chloroplast biocatalytic system

1976 • 114 citations

Bacteriorhodopsin as an Example of a Light‐Driven Proton Pump

1976 • 113 citations

Energy and Food Production

1982 • 109 citations

C4 photosynthesis in plants from cool temperate regions, with particular reference to Spartina townsendii

1975 • 100 citations

The Purple Membrane of Salt-loving Bacteria

1976 • 100 citations

Immobilization of hydrogenase on glass beads

1976 • 100 citations

Adaptation of Photosynthetic Processes to Stress

1975 • 94 citations

Increasing Crop Production Through More Controlled Photosynthesis

1977 • 93 citations

The aquatic fern Azolla and its Anabaena symbiont

1976 • 91 citations

Bioconversion of light energy into chemical energy through reduction with water of nitrate to ammonia

1976 • 84 citations

Agricultural Production and Energy Resources

1976 • 80 citations

Potential for Converting Wood into Plastics

1975 • 76 citations

Energy subsidy as a criterion in food policy planning

1973 • 71 citations

High-Efficiency Photosynthesis

1973 • 71 citations

Nitrate reductase as a possible predictive test of crop yield

1976 • 68 citations

Increasing Photosynthesis by Inhibiting Photorespiration with Glyoxylate

1977 • 66 citations

Renewable Resources for the Production of Fuels and Chemicals

1976 • 65 citations

Photobiological energy conversion

1976 • 65 citations

Photo-oxidation of water in phospholipid bilayer membranes containing chlorophyll a

1977 • 64 citations

Efficiency of photosynthesis

1960 • 64 citations

Conversion of light energy into electric energy by bacteriorhodopsin

1976 • 64 citations

Forest energy and economic development

1975 • 64 citations

In VitroPhotosynthesis

1976 • 64 citations

The biochemistry of photorespiration

1977 • 60 citations

Iron-sulphur clusters in natural and synthetic systems

1975 • 59 citations

Alcohol: A Brazilian Answer to the Energy Crisis

1977 • 51 citations

Plant Cell Cultures: Genetic Aspects of Crop Improvement

1975 • 49 citations

Productivity of algae in sewage disposal

1973 • 47 citations

Inquiry into biophotolysis of water to produce hydrogen

1976 • 46 citations

Amino acid synthesis through biogenetic-type CO2 fixation

1975 • 45 citations

MASS PRODUCTION OF ALGAE: BIOENGINEERING ASPECTS.

1977 • 42 citations

Maximum Production Capacity of Food Crops

1974 • 39 citations

Leaf protein: a beneficiary of tribulation

1975 • 39 citations

Food Production: Technology and the Resource Base

1975 • 39 citations

The energetics of British agriculture

1975 • 39 citations

Reconstitution of a System for H₂ Evolution with Chloroplasts, Ferredoxin, and Hydrogenase

1977 • 38 citations

Solar energy breeders

1976 • 38 citations

Hydrogenases and efficiency of nitrogen fixation in aerobes

1976 • 37 citations

Microencapsulation of Chloroplast Particles

1976 • 35 citations

Plant Genetics: Increasing Crop Yield

1977 • 34 citations

Photosynthetic Hydrogen Evolution by Spinach Chloroplasts Coupled to a Clostridium Hydrogenase

1977 • 32 citations

Photoelectrolysis using chlorophyll electrodes

1976 • 30 citations

Balancing Energy and Food Production, 1975-2000

1976 • 28 citations

Efficiency of photosynthesis as a solar energy converter

1973 • 27 citations

Fuels from biomass—energy outlay versus energy returns: A critical appraisal

1977 • 25 citations

The Ocean Food and Energy Farm Project.

1976 • 19 citations

BIOCONVERSION OF SOLAR ENERGY

1979 • 18 citations

The Energy Plantation

1975 • 16 citations

Genetic modification of plant cells: a reappraisal

1977 • 16 citations

Intensive Plantation Culture: five years research.

1976 • 16 citations

The coming age of wood

1949 • 15 citations

Guayule and Jojoba: Agriculture in Semiarid Regions

1977 • 13 citations

The energy to grow maize.

1975 • 10 citations

Energy from agriculture

1976 • 9 citations

Determinants of Feasibility in Bioconversion of Solar Energy

1977 • 9 citations

Ecological distribution of 1000 economic plants

1975 • 8 citations

Atmospheric carbon dioxide and forest clearance

1977 • 8 citations

An Assessment of Crop Production for Energy in Australia

1976 • 8 citations

Solar Power the photochemical alternative

1976 • 7 citations

Gas production from micro algae

1976 • 7 citations

Agricultural and forestry wastes as an energy resource

1977 • 6 citations

THE ENERGY PLANTATION: DESIGN, OPERATION AND ECONOMIC POTENTIAL

1976 • 5 citations

Biological conversion of solar energy

1979 • 4 citations

A Source of Self‐Sufficiency

1975 • 4 citations

RESULTS OF A NATIONAL SURVEY OF CELLULOSIC WASTE CHARACTERISTICS AND PROCESSES FOR THEIR CONVERSION TO ENERGY FORMS

1976 • 3 citations

Green plants might provide the cheapest energy of all

1976 • 3 citations

NEED AND DESIGN FOR A SOLAR GREENHOUSE

1977 • 3 citations

Will Photosynthesis Solve the Energy Problem?

1977 • 3 citations

Nutritional values for crop diversification matrix

1977 • 3 citations