Photosynthetic acclimation in trees to rising atmospheric CO2: A broader perspective.

abstract：:The engagement of different photoprotective mechanisms in the cells of the carotenogenic astaxanthin-accumulating chlorophyte Haematococcus pluvialis (i) under favorable conditions, (ii) in the course of stress-induced haematocyst formation and (iii) during recovery from the stress was studied. To this end, we followe...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Chekanov K,Lukyanov A,Boussiba S,Aflalo C,Solovchenko A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Soret absorption spectra of six synthetic rigid porphyrin dimers whose crystal structures have been determined are simulated using simple exciton theory. The objective is to test the validity of the point dipole and associated approximations; the electronic interaction parameters are thus calculated using data obt...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Won Y,Friesner RA,Johnson MR,Sessler JL

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplast NADP-dependent malate dehydrogenase (NADP-MDH, EC 1.1.1.82) is inactive in the dark and activated in the light via a reduction of specific disulfides by thiol-disulfide interchange with thioredoxin, reduced by the photosynthetic electron transfer. Compared to the constitutively active NAD-dependent forms, ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Miginiac-Maslow M,Lancelin JM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PAM-2000 portable chlorophyll fluorometer represents one of the first commercially available instruments utilizing the Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM) measurement principle, and has become a widely used platform for measuring chlorophyll fluorescence in a wide range of study systems. In this paper, we describe a ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Gray DW,Cardon ZG,Lewis LA

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The linear, four-step oxidation of water to molecular oxygen by photosystem II requires cooperation between redox reactions driven by light and a set of redox reactions involving the S-states within the oxygen-evolving complex. The oxygenevolving complex is a highly ordered structure in which a number of polypeptides ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Ghanotakis DF,Yocum CF

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of photosynthetic pigments in the development of separation methods in biochemistry during the period 1900-1980 is described beginning with M. Tswett who introduced separation of chlorophylls and carotenoids on columns and coined the term chromatography in 1906. In Uppsala, T. Svedberg developed the ultracent...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Albertsson PA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main objective of the present review is to provide a compilation of published data of the effects of several climatic conditions on Rubisco, particularly its activity, state of activation, and concentration, and its influence on leaf gas exchange and photosynthesis. The environmental conditions analyzed include dr...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Galmés J,Aranjuelo I,Medrano H,Flexas J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior to the 1960s, the model for the molecular structure of cell membranes consisted of a lipid bilayer held in place by a thin film of electrostatically-associated protein stretched over the bilayer surface: (the Danielli-Davson-Robertson "unit membrane" model). Andrew Benson, an expert in the lipids of chloroplast ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Anderson JM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, chlorophylls (chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b) are the most abundant tetrapyrrole molecules and are essential for photosynthesis. The first committed step of chlorophyll biosynthesis is the insertion of Mg(2+) into protoporphyrin IX, and thus subsequent steps of the biosynthesis are called the Mg branch. As...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Masuda T

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:Chlorophyll f is a photosynthetic pigment that was discovered in 2010. In this study, we present investigations on spectral and dynamic characteristics of singlet-excited and triplet states of Chl f with the application of ultrafast time-resolved absorption and fluorescence spectroscopies. The pigment was studied at r...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Niedzwiedzki DM,Liu H,Chen M,Blankenship RE

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the properties of a mutant of barley lacking Photosystem I (viridis-zb (63) ) with the corresponding wild type using modulated fluorescence measurements. The mutant showed two unexpected characteristics. Firstly, there was a slow decline in the fluorescence signal in the light which was dependent on t...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Juhler RK,Miller M,Simpson D,Cox RP

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：: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：:The photosystem II (PSII) manganese-stabilizing protein (PsbO) is known to be the essential PSII extrinsic subunit for stabilization and retention of the Mn and Cl(-) cofactors in the oxygen evolving complex (OEC) of PSII, but its function relative to Ca(2+) is less clear. To obtain a better insight into the relations...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Popelkova H,Boswell N,Yocum C

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This concise review describes the current status of research into how carotenoids function in bacterial photosynthesis. This is illustrated by reference to very recent studies on both the photoprotective and antenna functions of carotenoids. The major remaining open questions on the detailed molecular mechanisms invol...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Fraser NJ,Hashimoto H,Cogdell RJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Redox dependent protein phosphorylation in chloroplast thylakoids regulates distribution of excitation energy between the two photosystems of photosynthesis, PS I and PS II. Several thylakoid phosphoproteins are known to be phosphorylated on N-terminal threonine residues exposed to the chloroplast stroma. Phosphorylat...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Forsberg J,Allen JF

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six chlorophyll-protein complexes are isolated from thylakoid membranes of Bryopsis corticulans by dodecyl-beta-D: -maltoside polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Unlike that of higher plants, the 77 K fluorescence emission spectrum of the CP1 band, the PSI core complexes of B. corticulans, presents two peaks, one at 6...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Chen G,Niu X,Chen X,Li L,Kuang T,Li S

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a study of the fluorescence and absorbance transients occurring in whole cells of purple nonsulfur bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides on the millisecond timescale under pulsed actinic illumination. The fluorescence induction curve is interpreted in terms of combination of effects of redox changes in...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bína D,Litvín R,Vácha F

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current status of research on the structure, regulation, mechanism and importance of Rubisco activase is reviewed. The activase is now recognized to be a member of the AAA(+) family, whose members participate in macromolecular complexes that perform diverse chaperone-like functions. The conserved nucleotide-bindin...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Portis AR Jr

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been known for some time that bicarbonate reverses the inhibition, by formate under HCO3 (-)-depletion conditions, of electron transport in thylakoid membranes. It has been shown that the major effect is on the electron acceptor side of photosystem II, at the site of plastoquinone reduction. After presenting a ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Blubaugh DJ,Govindjee

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Around 1960 experiments of Arnold and Clayton, Chance and Nishimura and Calvin and coworkers demonstrated that the primary photosynthetic electron transfer processes are not abolished by cooling to cryogenic temperatures. After a brief historical introduction, this review discusses some aspects of electron transfer in...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Aartsma TJ,Amesz J

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model is presented describing the relationship between chlorophyll fluorescence quenching and photoinhibition of Photosystem (PS) II-dependent electron transport in chloroplasts. The model is based on the hypothesis that excess light creates a population of inhibited PS II units in the thylakoids. Those units are su...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Giersch C,Krause GH

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the redox state of P700, the primary donor of PS I, monitored using absorbance changes at 830 nm and photochemical energy storage in PS I reaction centers assayed with the photoacoustic method (PA) was studied in isolated PS I submembrane particles aspirated onto nitrocellulose filters. Severa...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bukhov NG,Rajagopal S,Carpentier R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The light response curves of the acceptor and donor side mechanisms of photoinhibition of Photosystem II were calculated, using Arabidopsis as a model organism. Acceptor-side photoinhibition was modelled as double reduction of QA, noting that non-photochemical quenching has the same effect on the quantum yield of QA d...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Tyystjärvi E,Hakala M,Sarvikas P

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of PsaC with the core heterodimer of Photosystem 1 was studied in wild type Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and the site-directed mutant R561E of PsaB. The mutant reaction center was much less stable in urea and the functional reconstitution of the mutant core using PsaC was impaired. However, the extent of...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Rodday SM,Schulz R,McLntosh L,Biggins J

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study of photosystem II complexes isolated from tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. John William's Broadleaf) which contains normal stacked thylakoid membranes, and from two chlorophyll deficient tobacco mutants (Su/su and Su/su var. Aurea) which have low stacked grana or essentially unstacked thylakoids w...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Specht S,Pistorius EK,Schmid GH

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MOA-stilbene is known to be a specific inhibitor of the Qo site of mammalian cytochrome bc 1 complex. We show that it also binds to the chloroplast cytochrome bf complex. Binding to the reduced enzyme induces a red-shift of the Soret and visible absorption bands of the haems b. Steady state and single turnover experim...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Rich PR,Madgwick SA,Brown S,von Jagow G,Brandt U

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of leaf water potential (Ψ) on net CO2 assimilation rate (A), stomatal conductance (g), transpiration (E) and water-use efficiency (WUE) was measured for three cultivars of cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) seedlings during three recurrent drought cycles. Net assimilation varied greatly at high water potentials, b...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Joly RJ,Hahn DT

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00