📚 Photosynthesis

The reaction that runs the planet: light, carbon and chlorophyll, measured from the eighteenth century onward.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject photosynthesis in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Molecular mechanisms of photosynthesis	Robert E. Blankenship	2001	18
	Understanding Photosynthesis with Max Axiom Super Scientist	Liam O'Donnell	2007	13
	Handbook of Photosynthesis	Mohammad Pessarakli	1997	11
	Photosynthesis	Harvey J.M. Hou	2015	11
	Progress in Photosynthesis Research	J. Biggins	1899	10
	Predicting Photosynthesis for Ecosystem Models	John D. Hesketh	2017	10
	Photosynthesis	Isaac Asimov	1968	7
	Biochemistry of photosynthesis	R. P. F. Gregory	1971	7
	Photosynthesis	D. O. Hall	1972	7
	Techniques in bioproductivity and photosynthesis	J. Coombs	1981	7
	Why do elephants need the sun?	Wells, Robert E.	2010	7
	Photosynthesis in algae	A. W. D. Larkum	1899	6
	Photosynthesis, two centuries after its discovery by Joseph Priestley	G. Forti	1972	6
	Current topics in photosynthesis	A. J. Hoff	1899	5
	Photosynthesis and related processes	Eugene Rabinowitch	1945	5
	Photosynthesis	G. E. Fogg	1968	5
	Photosynthesis and production in a changing environment	D. O. Hall	1992	5
	Probing photosynthesis	Mohammad Yunus	2000	5
	Photosynthetic Membrane	Alexander V. Ruban	2012	5
	Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis	Reza Razeghifard	2013	5
	Photosynthesis	Prasanna Mohanty	1899	4
	The chlorophylls	Leo P. Vernon	1966	4
	Photosynthesis	Robert M. Devlin	1971	4
	Dynamics of leaf photosynthesis	A. Laisk	1997	4
	Concepts in photobiology	G. S. Singhal	1999	4
	Eating the sun	Oliver Morton	2007	4
	Food from the sun	Harriet Brown	2007	4
	Non-Photochemical Quenching and Energy Dissipation in Plants, Algae and Cyanobacteria	Barbara Demmig-Adams	2014	4
	The Structural Basis of Biological Energy Generation	Martin F. Hohmann-Marriott	2014	4
	Canopy Photosynthesis	Kouki Hikosaka	2015	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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