Current status of the role of Cl(-) ion in the oxygen-evolving complex.

abstract：:This review describes the progress in our understanding of the structure of the Mn complex in Photosystem II over the last two decades. Emphasis is on the research from our laboratory, especially the results from X-ray absorption spectroscopy, low temperature electron paramagnetic resonance and electron spin echo enve...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Klein MP,Sauer K,Yachandra VK

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several protein-coding genes from land plant chloroplasts have been shown to contain introns. The majority of these introns resemble the fungal mitochondrial group II introns due to considerable nucleotide sequence homology at their 5' and 3' ends and they can readily be folded to form six hairpins characteristic of t...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Plant AL,Gray JC

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on our recent efforts in synthetic ruthenium-tyrosine-manganese chemistry mimicking the donor side reactions of Photosystem II. Tyrosine and tryptophan residues were linked to ruthenium photosensitizers, which resulted in model complexes for proton-coupled electron transfer from amino acids. A new ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Lomoth R,Magnuson A,Sjödin M,Huang P,Styring S,Hammarström L

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In polyploid plants the photosynthetic rate per cell is correlated with the amount of DNA per cell. The photosynthetic rate per unit leaf area is the product of the rate per cell times the number of photosynthetic cells per unit area. Therefore, the photosynthetic rate per unit leaf area will increase if there is a le...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Warner DA,Edwards GE

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chlorina-f2 mutant of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) contains no chlorophyll b in its light-harvesting antenna, whereas the chlorina-103 mutant contains approximately 10% of the chlorophyll b found in wild-type. The absolute chlorophyll antenna size for Photosystem-II in wild-type, chlorina-103 and chlorina-f2 mutant...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Harrison MA,Nemson JA,Melis A

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthesis was well-established on the earth at least 3.5 thousand million years ago, and it is widely believed that these ancient organisms had similar metabolic capabilities to modern cyanobacteria. This requires that development of two photosystems and the oxygen evolution capability occurred very early in the...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Blankenship RE

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of the efficiency with which leaves convert absorbed light to photochemical energy [intrinsic efficiency of open photosystem II (PSII) centers, as the ratio of variable to maximal chlorophyll fluorescence] as well as leaf xanthophyll composition (interconversions of the xanthophyll cycle pigments violaxanth...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Demmig-Adams B,Cohu CM,Muller O,Adams WW 3rd

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pigment system containing carotenoids and oxidised reaction centre pigments is present in chromatophores of Rhodospirillum rubrum and this pigment system may cause fluorescence quenching when a still unidentified chromatophore component is in its oxidised state. Besides by its action spectrum, this pigment system is...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Goedheer JC

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'Salada de Chiprana' (Chiprana Lake) is a hypersaline (30-73 per thousand), permanent and shallow lake of endorheic origin in a semi-arid region of the Ebro depression (Aragon, Spain). Magnesium sulfate and sodium chloride represent the main salts of this athalassohaline environment. Anoxic conditions occurred per...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Vila X,Guyoneaud R,Cristina XP,Figueras JB,Abella CA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferredoxin and the flavoprotein, ferredoxin: NADP reductase, have been covalently linked by incubation in the presence of a water soluble carbodiimide. The cross-linking reaction yields an adduct having a 1:1 stoichiometry. The adduct has depressed levels of diaphorase and NADPH oxidase activity and is inactive in red...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Colvert KK,Davis DJ

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical plants are sensitive to chilling temperatures above zero but it is still unclear whether photosystem I (PSI) or photosystem II (PSII) of tropical plants is mainly affected by chilling temperatures. In this study, the effect of 4 degrees C associated with various light densities on PSII and PSI was studied in ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Huang W,Zhang SB,Cao KF

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxidation kinetics under far-red light (FRL) of photosystem I (PSI) high potential donors P700, plastocyanin (PC), and cytochrome f (Cyt f) were investigated in sunflower leaves with the help of a new high-sensitivity photometer at 810 nm. The slopes of the 810 nm signal were measured immediately before and after ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Talts E,Oja V,Rämma H,Rasulov B,Anijalg A,Laisk A

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maximum photosynthetic CO2 exchange rates (Pn) of single attached leaves were determined for several cassava cultivars selected from different habitats and grown in pots outdoors at CIAT, Colombia, S.A. Pn rates were in a narrow range of 22 to 26 μmol CO2 m(-2)s(-1) for all cultivars tested when measured at high photo...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： El-Sharkawy MA,Cock JH,Held AA

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heliobacteria contain Type I reaction centers (RCs) and a homodimeric core, but unlike green sulfur bacteria, they do not contain an extended antenna system. Given their simplicity, the heliobacterial RC (HbRC) should be ideal for the study of a prototypical homodimeric RC. However, there exist enormous gaps in our kn...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Heinnickel M,Golbeck JH

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulphoquinovosyldiacylglycerol is a negatively charged lipid which exists in the thylakoid membrane. It is proposed that a large proportion of this acidic lipid does not form a part of the bulk lipid matrix but is closely associated with protein complexes where it is tightly bound and participates in either optimising...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Barber J,Gounaris K

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, relatively few proteomics studies of chloroplast have been published, but the field has just started emerging and is likely to develop more rapidly in the future. While the complex membrane structure of the chloroplast makes it difficult to study its entire proteome by global approaches, proteomics has cons...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Schröder WP,Kieselbach T

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This contribution gives a brief survey of the short history since the discovery of the aerobic phototrophic bacteria to focus on a general evolutionary scenario. Most of the citations are of reviews that have covered the earlier literature and to which the reader is directed at appropriate places in the following text...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Beatty JT

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The localization of isoprenoid lipids in chloroplasts, the accumulation of particular isoprenoids under high irradiance conditions, and channelling of photosynthetically fixed carbon into plastidic thylakoid isoprenoids, volatile isoprenoids, and cytosolic sterols are reviewed. During leaf and chloroplast development ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Lichtenthaler HK

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Application of target theory to the photoinactivation of Photosystem II in pea leaf discs (Park et al. 1995, 1996a,b) reveals that there is a critical light dosage below which there is complete photoprotection and above which there is photoinactivation (i.e a light-induced loss of oxygen flash yield). The critical dos...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sinclair J,Park YI,Chow WS,Anderson JM

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen evolving photosystem II particles were exposed to 100 and 250 W m(-2) white light at 20°C under aerobic, anaerobic and strongly reducing (presence of dithionite) conditions. Three types of photoinactivation processes with different kinetics could be distinguished: (1) The fast process which occurs under strongl...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Setlík I,Allakhverdiev SI,Nedbal L,Setlíková E,Klimov VV

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaf variegation mutants constitute a unique group of chloroplast development mutants and are ideal genetic materials to dissect the regulation of chloroplast development. We have utilized the Arabidopsis yellow variegated (var2) mutant and genetic suppressor analysis to probe the mechanisms of chloroplast development...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Qi Y,Zhao J,An R,Zhang J,Liang S,Shao J,Liu X,An L,Yu F

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When excited by ultraviolet radiation, leaves of a great number of species of higher plants exhibit emission of blue fluorescence, comparable in intensity to the red emission of chlorophyll. The fluorescence decay of the blue emission of spinach leaves recorded by single photon counting techniques is decomposed into e...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Goulas Y,Moya I,Schmuck G

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfur is one of the critical elements in living matter, as it participates in several structural, metabolic and catalytic activities. Photosynthesis is an important process that entails the use of sulfur during both the light and carbon reactions. Nearly half of global photosynthetic carbon fixation is carried out by...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Norici A,Hell R,Giordano M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten strains from a collection of mutants ofSynechocystis 6803 defective in Photosystem II (PS II) function were transformed with chromosomal DNA of wild-type and mutant cells. Cross hybridization data allowed to identify four groups of PS II-mutants. Highly efficient transformation was observed between different mutan...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Ermakova SY,Elanskaya IV,Kallies KU,Weihe A,Börner T,Shestakov SV

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In appreciation of his contribution to the Photosystsem II research and commemoration of the book Photosystem II: The Light-Driven Water-Plastoquinone Oxido-Reductase, co-edited with Kimiyuki Satoh, I present here some of my recollections of Thomas John Wydrzynski and by several others with whom he has associated over...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Govindjee

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rates of net CO2 uptake were examined in developing leaves of Hydrocotyle bonariensis. Leaves that developed under high photosynthetically active radiation (48 mol m(-2) day(-1) PAR) were smaller, thicker, and reached maximum size sooner than did leaves that developed under low PAR (4.8 mol m(-2) day(-1)). Maximum net...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Longstreth DJ,Hartsock TL,Nobel PS

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of lyophilized thylakoid membranes of the thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. with n-heptane for 6 h resulted in marked changes in the pattern of photosystem I reaction center complexes resolved by sodium dodecylsulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. CP1-a, which consists of two large subunits...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Takahashi Y,Katoh S

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cassava, bean and maize leaves were fed with(14)CO2 in light and the primary products of photosynthesis identified 5 and 10 seconds after assimilation. In maize, approximately three quarters of the labelled carbon was incorporated in C4 acids, in beans about two thirds in PGA, and in cassava approximately 40-60% in C4...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Cock JH,Riaño NM,El-Sharkawy MA,Yamel LF,Bastidas G

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this Minireview, we discuss a number of issues on the primary photosynthetic reactions of the green plant Photosystem II. We discuss the origin of the 683 and 679 nm absorption bands of the PS II RC complex and suggest that these forms may reflect the single-site spectrum with dominant contributions from the zero-p...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Dekker JP,Van Grondelle R

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mike Wasielewski's pioneering work on Photosystem II photochemistry has an important place in the history of photosynthesis; we are proud to have been associated with him in making those first measurements. Here, we present our association and publications with him, and provide some of the history behind this research...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Govindjee,Seibert M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00