High radiation and desiccation tolerance of nitrogen-fixing cultures of the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 emanates from genome/proteome repair capabilities.

abstract：:Biological water oxidation, performed by a single enzyme, photosystem II, is a central research topic not only in understanding the photosynthetic apparatus but also for the development of water splitting catalysts for technological applications. Great progress has been made in this endeavor following the report of a ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Lubitz W,Chrysina M,Cox N

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyamines (PAs) are small metabolites that are produced and oxidized in chloroplasts with an obscure mode of action. Recently, we showed that qE is stimulated by PAs in higher plants (Nicotiana tabacum) and in genetically modified plants with elevated thylakoid-associated PAs (Ioannidis and Kotzabasis Biochim Biophys...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Ioannidis NE,Sfichi-Duke L,Kotzabasis K

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chlorophyll content is an important experimental parameter in agronomy and plant biology research. In this report, we explore the feasibility of determining total concentration of extracts containing chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b by chlorophyll fluorescence. We found that an excitation at 457 nm results in the s...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Lamb JJ,Eaton-Rye JJ,Hohmann-Marriott MF

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proton electrochemical potential across the membranes of photosynthetic purple bacteria is established by a light-driven proton pump mechanism: the absorbed light in the reaction center initiates electron transfer which is coupled to the vectorial displacement of protons from the cytoplasm to the periplasm. The stoi...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Maróti P

更新日期：1993-07-01 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：:While interest in photosynthetic thermal acclimation has been stimulated by climate warming, comparing results across studies requires consistent terminology. We identify five types of photosynthetic adjustments in warming experiments: photosynthesis as measured at the high growth temperature, the growth temperature, ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Way DA,Yamori W

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Henrik Lundegårdh made major contributions in the field of ecology and plant physiology from 1912 to 1969. His early work at Hallands Väderö in the Kattegat pioneered quantitative approaches to plant ecology and laid the understanding of carbon dioxide exchange in natural communities which is still useful today in glo...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Larkum AW

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fluorescence video imaging system utilizing relatively inexpensive commercial components is described. The instrument utilizes a black and white CCD video camera detector, a commercial video imaging board and a IBM-AT compatible computer. The color output of the imaging board greatly aids in the users ability to vis...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Fenton JM,Crofts AR

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photosynthetic sulfur bacterium, Chromatium vinosum, was cultured in inorganic photographic processing solutions containing silver thiosulfate complex salt (AgNa3(S2O3)2) under light. It was found that Chromatium was resistant to Ag and accumulated granular silver in the membrane during growth. The amount of Ag ac...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Kitajima M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water vapor was added differentially to the gas streams entering the cells of three makes of differential infrared carbon dioxide analysers. Analyser deflections were compared with those expected from dilution of the carbon dioxide by the additional gas. Tests were made at 0, 365, and 730 cm(3) m(-3) concentrations of...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bunce JA,Ward DA

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A short list of the twentieth century's dominant figures in photosynthesis would unquestionably include Otto Warburg. One of his many discoveries, the 'bicarbonate effect' remains a lasting puzzle to his heirs in the field. Recent developments in this area of research have renewed interest and call for a re-examinatio...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Stemler AJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The early suggestion by Lozier and Butler (Photochem. Photobiol. 17, 133-137 (1973)) that EPR Signal II arises from radicals associated with the water-splitting process in PSII has been confirmed and extended over the intervening years. Recent work has identified the Signal II radicals, [Formula: see text] and [Formul...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Chandrashekar TK,O'malley PJ,Rodriguez I,Babcock GT

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro studies of the carotenoid peridinin, which is the primary pigment from the peridinin chlorophyll-a protein (PCP) light harvesting complex, showed a strong dependence on the lifetime of the peridinin lowest singlet excited state on solvent polarity. This dependence was attributed to the presence of an intramol...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Polívka T,Pascher T,Sundström V,Hiller RG

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors governing quinone protein binding in the photosynthetic bacterium Rps. viridis are investigated via use of empirical intermolecular energy calculations using the GRID method (PJ Goodford (1985) J Med Chem 28: 849-854). A probe atom corresponding to a carbonyl oxygen atom is used to investigate regions exhi...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： O'Malley PJ,Braithwaite CJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthetic electron transfer has been examined in whole cells, isolated membranes and in partially purified reaction centers (RCs) of Roseicyclus mahoneyensis, strain ML6 and Porphyrobacter meromictius, strain ML31, two species of obligate aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria. Photochemical activity in strain ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Rathgeber C,Alric J,Hughes E,Verméglio A,Yurkov V

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

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：:DCMU (3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea) at concentrations higher than 10 μM suppresses the second time range delayed fluorescence (DF) of pea chloroplasts, due to inhibition of the oxidizing side of photosystem II (PS II). The inhibition of the reducing side of PS II resulting in the suppression of millisecond ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Vasil'ev IR,Matorin DN,Lyadsky VV,Venediktov PS

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A three-dimensional model of the core proteins D1 and D2, including the cofactors, that form the Photosystem II reaction centre of pea (Pisum sativum), has been generated. This model was built with a rule-based computer modelling system using the information from the crystal structures of the photosynthetic reaction c...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Ruffle SV,Donnelly D,Blundell TL,Nugent JH

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the mechanistic basis for the movement of promiscuous nucleic acids across cell membranes. To address this problem we sought conditions that would permit the entry of plasmid DNA into isolated, intact pea chloroplasts. DNA uptake did not occur normally, but was induced by hypotonic treatments, by...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Cerutti H,Jagendorf A

更新日期：1995-11-01 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 combination of inhibitor and (15)N studies were used to investigate the photorespiratory nitrogen cycle in maize, a C4 plant. Inhibitors used included isonicotinyl hydrazide which blocks the conversion of glycine to serine, methionine sulfoximine an inhibitor of GS and azaserine an inhibitor of GOGAT. Results from l...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Berger MG,Fock HP

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A time line of important research relating to anoxygenic photosynthetic organisms is presented. The time line includes discoveries of organisms, metabolic capabilities, molecular complexes and genetic systems. It also pinpoints important milestones in our understanding of the structure, function, organization, assembl...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Gest H,Blankenship RE

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is concerned with relating thermoluminescence to the total free-energy change, ΣG, involved in detrapping a particular electron-hole pair as a photosynthetic sample is warmed from an initial low temperature. It extends a mathematical discussion of four possible mechanisms introduced in an earlier paper [DeV...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Devault D,Govindjee

更新日期：1990-05-01 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：:The activity of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase fromEuglena gracilis decays steadily when exposed to agents that induce oxidative modification of cysteine residues (Cu(2+), benzofuroxan, disulfides, arsenite, oxidized ascorbate). Inactivation takes place with a concomitant loss of cysteine sulfhydryl g...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： García-Ferris C,Moreno J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the fluorescence properties of cyanobacterial Photosystem I (PS I) in relatively intact systems, fluorescence emission from 20 to 295 K and polarization at 77 K have been measured from phycobilisomes-less thylakoids of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and a mutant strain lacking Photosystem II (PS II). At 295 K...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Wittmershaus BP,Woolf VM,Vermaas WF

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise control of the proton concentration gradient across thylakoid membranes (ΔpH) is essential for photosynthesis and its regulation because the gradient contributes to the generation of the proton motive force used for ATP synthesis and also for the fast and reversible induction of non-photochemical quenching (NP...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Trinh MDL,Sato R,Masuda S

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy storage measurements by modulated photothermal radiometry (PTR) were carried out on intact leaves to assess the value of the PTR method for photosynthesis research. In particular, correlations to the redox state of P700 under various conditions were examined. PTR monitors modulated light conversion to heat by s...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Malkin S,Schreiber U,Jansen M,Canaani O,Shalgi E,Cahen D

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The storage of light energy in chemical form through photosynthesis is the key process underlying life as we know it. To utilize photosynthates efficiently as structural materials or as fuel to drive endergonic processes, they have to be transported from where they are produced to where they are needed. In this primer...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Knoblauch M,Peters WS

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biogenesis of the photosynthetic apparatus in greening etiolated leaves of barley (Hordeum vulgare L) was investigated by an approach permitting investigation of this process under conditions that minimize differences in plastid development. Distributions of barley leaves greening for 24 h as to chlorophyll content an...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Radyuk MS,Homan NM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00