{"id":2130,"date":"2026-07-16T10:11:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ulysses-erc.eu\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2026-08-18T10:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:27:34","slug":"our-work-on-the-photosynthesis-of-posidonia-oceanica-out-in-nature-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ulysses-erc.eu\/?p=2130","title":{"rendered":"Our work on the photosynthesis of Posidonia oceanica out in Nature Communications!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2130\" class=\"elementor elementor-2130\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68420ef e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"68420ef\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9f1b8a6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"9f1b8a6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c514b28 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c514b28\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Our latest work on photosynthesis in Posidonia oceanica has just been published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-75200-8\">Nature Communications<\/a>!<\/p><p>In this work, we uncovered an evolutionary adaptation that enables this seagrass to optimise photosynthesis by reshaping its photosynthetic machinery for more efficient light harvesting and energy transfer. Using Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy (2DES), we observed energy transfer within the photosystem on a timescale of just a few femtoseconds, providing new insights into the mechanisms that make photosynthesis in Posidonia oceanica particularly efficient.<\/p><p>Congratulations to Mattia and all co-authors! 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In this work, we uncovered an evolutionary adaptation that enables this seagrass to optimise photosynthesis by reshaping its photosynthetic machinery for more efficient light harvesting and energy transfer. Using Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy (2DES), we observed energy transfer within the photosystem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ulysses-erc.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ulysses-erc.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ulysses-erc.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulysses-erc.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulysses-erc.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulysses-erc.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulysses-erc.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ulysses-erc.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulysses-erc.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ulysses-erc.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}