This article World’s Most-Used Weedkiller Found To Disrupt Honeybee Brains https://scitechdaily.com/worlds-most-used-weedkiller-found-to-disrupt-honeybee-brains/ explains that … glyphosate works by blocking an enzyme plants need for photosynthesis. Since Bees don’t have this enzyme, so, [glyphosate] is harmless to bees.
The study and experiments show effects of glyphosate (sold as: Roundup [herbicide]) are far more serious and may have implications for people [at one end of the food chain].
Should we be using glyphosate less? EU bans it. (But AUS and USA allow it under strict control.)
Another issue is that in Thailand we are teaching our children photosynthesis without mentioning enzyme Rubisco (Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase) which is essential to perform photosynthesis. It is the most abundant enzyme on Earth. Rubisco is responsible for carbon fixation. During the light-independent reactions (Calvin cycle), it captures atmospheric CO₂ and binds it to RuBP (Ribulose bisphosphate), converting inorganic carbon into usable organic carbon in sugars (carbohydrates).
While Rubisco drives this crucial reaction, it is notoriously slow and can sometimes mistakenly bind to oxygen, reducing efficiency through a process called photorespiration.
NB
The process that is being taught in schools (in Thailand):
Light → (gets trapped by) chlorophyll + CO₂ (in air) ⇒ H₂O (water) + carbohydrate (sugars, energy)
ignores enzyme RuBisCo that catalyses inorganic carbon dioxide into carbohydrate molecules.
Should we be adjusting our understanding of Photosynthesis and learning more of this enzyme?
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May I suggest Plant Database’s Molecule of the Month: Rubisco back in November 2000 http://doi.org/10.2210/rcsb_pdb/mom_2000_11. (PDB is USA funded and may suffer funding cut that can reduce this information source.)