Photosynthetic energy storage efficiency in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, based on microsecond photoacoustics.

abstract：:Two lessons I have learned during my research career are the importance of following up unexpected observations and realizing that the most obvious interpretation of such observations can be rational but wrong. When you carry out an experiment there is usually an expectation that the result will fall within a range of...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： John Ellis R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light activation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from the leaves of the C4 plant Setaria verticillata (L.) is more pronounced at low CO2 levels. The 2-fold activation observed at physiological ambient CO2 becomes 3.64-fold at 5 μL/L and completely abolished above 700 μL/L. When the stomata close under the influence...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Samaras Y,Manetas Y

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of protein phosphorylation and cation depletion on the electron transport rate and fluorescence emission characteristics of photosystem I at two stages of chloroplast development in light-grown wheat leaves are examined. The light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein complex associated with photosystem I (LH...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bredenkamp GJ,Baker NR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The picture presently emerging from studies on the mechanism of photosystem II electron transport is discussed. The reactions involved in excitation trapping, charge separation and stabilization of the charge pair in the reaction center, followed by the reactions with the substrates, plastoquinone reduction and water ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Van Gorkom HJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hypothesis is proposed to explain the function of Cl(-) in activating the oxygenevolving complex (OEC) of photosystem II (PS II), based on the results of recent (35)Cl-NMR studies. The putative mechanism involves Cl(-) binding to two types of sites. An intrinsic site is suggested to be composed of three histidyl res...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Coleman WJ,Govindjee

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pigment composition of the light-harvesting complexes of Photosystem II (LHC II) has been determined for lettuce (Lactuca sativa). In common with other members of the composite, the photosynthetic tissues of this species may contain large amounts of the carotenoid lactucaxanthin (ε, ε-carotene-3,3'-diol) in additi...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Phillip D,Young AJ

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The linear dichroism of Photosystem I particles containing 10 chlorophylls per P700 has been investigated at 10 K. The particles were oriented by uniaxial squeezing of polyacrylamide gels. The oxidation state of P700 was altered either by incubation of the gels with redox mediators or by low temperature illumination. ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Breton J,Ikegami I

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 3- and 7-formyl groups of chlorophyll-d (Chl-d) and bacteriochlorophyll-e (BChl-e), respectively, were regioselectively labeled with an isotopically stable oxygen-18 (¹⁸O) atom to give 3¹-¹⁸O-labeled Chl-d and 7¹-¹⁸O-labeled BChl-e (ca. 90% ¹⁸O) by exchanging the carbonyl oxygen atoms in the presence of acidic H₂ ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Morishita H,Mizoguchi T,Tamiaki H

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthetic organisms normally endeavor to optimize the efficiency of their light-harvesting apparatus. However, here we describe two bacterial isolates belonging to the genera Allochromatium and Thiocapsa that demonstrate a novel adaptation by optimizing their external growth conditions at the expense of photosynt...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Herbert RA,Gall A,Maoka T,Cogdell RJ,Robert B,Takaichi S,Schwabe S

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of acetate metabolism on the light energy distribution between the two photosystems, on the PS II/PS I stoichiometry and on the expression of psbA and psbB and psaA genes was investigated in the green alga, Chlamydobotrys stellata during autotrophic (CO(2)), mixotrophic (CO(2) plus acetate) and photoheterot...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Kovács L,Wiessner W,Kis M,Nagy F,Mende D,Demeter S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flash-induced absorbance measurements at 830 nm on both nanosecond and microsecond timescales have been used to characterise the effect of ultraviolet light on Photosystem II core particles. A combination of UV-A and UV-B, closely simulating the spectrum of sunlight below 350 nm, was found to have a primary effect on ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Post A,Lukins PB,Walker PJ,Larkum AW

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed analysis of the periplasmic electron carriers of the photosynthetic bacterium Ectothiorhodospira sp. has been performed. Two low mid-point redox potential electron carriers, cytochrome c' and cytochrome c, are detected. A high potential iron-sulfur protein is the only high mid-point redox potential electron...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Buche A,Picorel R,Moulis JM,Verméglio A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorosomes, the light-harvesting apparatus of green bacteria, are a unique antenna system, in which pigments are organized in aggregates rather than associated with proteins. Isolated chlorosomes from the green sulphur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum contain 10 surface-exposed proteins. Treatment of chlorosomes from Chl...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Milks KJ,Danielsen M,Persson S,Jensen ON,Cox RP,Miller M

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relationships between induced high leaf intercellular CO₂ concentrations, leaf K⁺ and NO₃⁻ ion movement and early fruit formation under macronutrient limitation are not well understood. We examined the effects and interactions of reduced K/N input treatments on leaf intercellular CO₂, photosynthesis rate, carboxylatio...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Li H,Li T,Fu G,Katulanda P

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid procedure has been developed for the isolation of the photosystem two reaction centre complex (PS II RC) from a double mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, F54-14, which lacks the Photosystem one complex and the chloroplast ATPase. Thylakoid membranes are solubilised with 1.5% (w/v) Triton X-100 and the PS II ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Alizadeh S,Nixon PJ,Telfer A,Barber J

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygenic photosynthesis is driven by two multi-subunit membrane protein complexes, Photosystem I and Photosystem II. In plants and green algae, both complexes are composed of two moieties: a reaction center (RC), where light-induced charge translocation occurs, and a peripheral antenna that absorbs light and funnels i...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Ben-Shem A,Frolow F,Nelson N

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosystem I particles containing 30-40 chlorophyll a molecules per primary electron donor P700 were subjected to 1.5 ps low density laser flashes at 610 nm resulting in excitation of the antenna chlorophyll a molecules followed by energy transfer to P700 and subsequent oxidation of P700. Absorbance changes were moni...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Wasielewski MR,Fenton JM,Govindjee

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the leaf succulent Asclepiad Hoya carnosa (L.) R. Br., CAM photosynthesis occurred under well-watered conditions, as characterized by diurnal gas exchange and changes in titratable acidity. Following 10-12 days of severe water stress, the plants shifted from CAM to a modified CAM-idling mode of metabolism. CAM-idli...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Rayder L,Ting IP

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigment-protein-complexes of two chlorophyll b deficient mutants of Arabidopsis and from the wild type were separated electrophoretically. Light-harvesting proteins were absent in the chlorophyll b free mutant ch(1) and their amount was reduced in the mutant ch(2) which has a reduced content of chlorophyll b. The rati...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Rühle W,Reiländer H,Otto KD,Wild A

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：:Recent magnetic-resonance work on YŻ suggests that this species exhibits considerable motional flexibility in its functional site and that its phenol oxygen is not involved in a well-ordered hydrogen-bond interaction (Tang et al., submitted; Tommos et al., in press). Both of these observations are inconsistent with a ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Hoganson CW,Lydakis-Simantiris N,Tang XS,Tommos C,Warncke K,Babcock GT,Diner BA,McCracken J,Styring S

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Illumination of the dark-incubated cells of Synechocystis PCC6803 caused recovery of both respiratory activity of oxygen uptake and PS I-cyclic electron flow, which was monitored by the dark reduction of P700(+) in the presence of DCMU after a 50 ms pulse light (MT) under background far-red light, but the effects were...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Mi H,Deng Y,Tanaka Y,Hibino T,Takabe T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible origins of the different fluorescence decay components in green plants are discussed in terms of a random walk and Butler's bipartite model. The interaction of the excitations with the photosystem II reaction centers and, specifically, the regeneration of theses excitations by charge recombination within ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Geacintov NE,Breton J,Knox RS

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taro and cocoyam were grown outdoors in either full sun or under 40% shade. Leaves were tagged as they emerged and the effect of leaf age on net CO2 assimilation rate (A) was determined. The effects of shading on A, transpiration (E), stomatal conductance for CO2 (gc) and H2O (gs), and water use efficiency (WUE) were ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Schaffer B,O'Hair SK

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of light on the metabolism of ammonia was studied by subjecting detached maize leaves to 150 or 1350 μmol m(-2) s(-1) PAR during incubation with the leaf base in 2 mM (15)NH4Cl. After up to 60 min, leaves were extracted. Ammonia, glutamine, glycine, serine, alanine, and aspartate were separated by isotherma...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Klaus RE,Berger MG,Fock HP

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier mass spectrometric measurements, in which oxygen evolution was measured following short saturating light flashes, indicated that with a time resolution of about 30 s no form of bound water and/or an oxidation product exists up to the redox state S3 of the oxygen evolving center (R. Radmer and O. Ollinger, 1986...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bader KP,Renger G,Schmid GH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra- and inter-specific variation in CO2 assimilation rate (A) in Triticum spp. is well documented for reproductive growth stages. Research was conducted to characterize early vegetative photosynthetic variation in a diverse set of cultivated hexaploid wheat (T. aestivum L.) germplasm and in wild tetraploid (T. dico...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Carver BF,Johnson RC,Rayburn AL

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is diverse, yet controversial fossil evidence for the existence of photosynthesis 3500 million years ago. Among the most persuasive evidence is the stromatolites described from low grade metasedimentary rocks in Western Australia and South Africa. Based on the understanding of the paleobiology of stromatolites a...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Awramik SM

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In studies on photosynthetic systems it is common practice to interpret the results of time-resolved fluorescence experiments on the basis of compartmental, or target, models. Each compartment represents a group of molecules with similar fluorescence characteristics. In cases of practical interest, the members of each...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Holcomb CT,Knox RS

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here the life and work of Shmuel Malkin (1934-2017), an accomplished scientist and a gifted musician who touched the lives of many around the world. His early scientific work addressed the dynamics of light harvesting and electron transport in photosynthesis. Later, he used photoacoustic and photothermal me...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Herbert SK,Siderer Y,Govindjee

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00