Modulation of photosynthetic activity and photoprotection in Haematococcus pluvialis cells during their conversion into haematocysts and back.

abstract：:We generated transgenic tobacco plants with high levels of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase expressing cyanobacterialfructose-1,6-/sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase in the cytosol. At ambient CO(2) levels (360 ppm), growth, photosynthetic activity, and fresh weight were unchanged but the sucrose/hexose/starch ratio was slig...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Tamoi M,Hiramatsu Y,Nedachi S,Otori K,Tanabe N,Maruta T,Shigeoka S

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moderately high temperature reduces photosynthetic capacities of leaves with large effects on thylakoid reactions of photosynthesis, including xanthophyll conversion in the lipid phase of the thylakoid membrane. In previous studies, we have found that leaf temperature of 40°C increased zeaxanthin accumulation in dark-...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Zhang R,Kramer DM,Cruz JA,Struck KR,Sharkey TD

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:The afterglow (AG) band of thermoluminescence (TL) has been investigated in leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana. Excitation of dark-adapted leaves with two saturating single turn-over flashes induced the appearance of a complex TL glow curve that could be well simulated by three components: the two components, B1 and B2, o...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Roncel M,Ortega JM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this brief report, we provide a pictorial essay on an international conference "Photosynthesis Research for Sustainability-2013 in honor of Jalal A. Aliyev" that was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, during June 5-9, 2013 ( http://photosynthesis2013.cellreg.org/ ). We begin this report with a brief note on Jalal Aliyev, th...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Allakhverdiev SI,Huseynova IM,Govindjee

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:Photosynthesis powers our planet and is a source of inspiration for developing artificial constructs mimicking many aspects of the natural energy transducing process. In the complex machinery of photosystem II (PSII), the redox activity of the tyrosine Z (Tyrz) hydrogen-bonded to histidine 190 (His190) is essential fo...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Odella E,Moore TA,Moore AL

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxygen production of dark-adapted Photosystem II upon illumination by a series of single-turnover flashes shows a damped period four oscillation with flash number. The damping is attributed to 'misses' resulting from a statistical probability that a reaction center fails to produce a stable charge separation after...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： de Wijn R,van Gorkom HJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optically detected magnetic resonance of chlorosome-containing membranes from the green filamentous bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus has been performed both by fluorescence and absorption detection. Triplet states localized in the chlorosomes and in the B808-866 complex have been characterized. After chemical reduct...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bordignon E,Scarzello M,Agostini G,Giacometti G,Vianelli A,Vannini C,Carbonera D

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a mutant Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942, termed R2HECAT, in which the entire phycobilisome rod operon has been deleted. In the whole cell absorption spectra of R2HECAT, the peak corresponding to phycocyanin (PC), λmax≈620 nm, could not be detected. However, a single pigment-protein fraction with λmax=6...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bhalerao RP,Gillbro T,Gustafsson P

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a theoretical study of excitation dynamics in the chlorosome antenna complex of green photosynthetic bacteria based on a recently proposed model for the molecular assembly. Our model for the excitation energy transfer (EET) throughout the antenna combines a stochastic time propagation of the excitonic wave ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Fujita T,Huh J,Saikin SK,Brookes JC,Aspuru-Guzik A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electronic structure of a Mn(II) ion bound to highly oxidizing reaction centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides was studied in a mutant modified to possess a metal binding site at a location comparable to the Mn4Ca cluster of photosystem II. The Mn-binding site of the previously described mutant, M2, contains three car...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Tufts AA,Flores M,Olson TL,Williams JC,Allen JP

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from leaves of the C4 plant Setaria verticillata (L.) Beauv. is activated by light; day levels of activity are reached after 30 minutes of illumination. Photoactivation is prevented by inhibitors of photosynthetic electron flow or of photophosphorylation and by D,L-glyceraldehyde, which...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Samaras Y,Manetas Y,Gavalas NA

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study confirmed earlier conclusions regarding differential ozone (O(3)) tolerances of two soybean cultivars, Essex and Forrest, and evaluated antioxidant enzyme activities of these two varieties based on their performance under environmentally relevant, elevated O(3) conditions. The experiment was conducte...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Chernikova T,Robinson JM,Lee EH,Mulchi CL

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P700 enriched fractions were isolated from two brown algae and one diatom using sucrose density centrifugation after digitinin solubilization. They had a Chl a/P700 ratio of about 250 to 375 according to the species, they were enriched in long-wavelength absorbing Chl a and exhibited a fluorescence emission maximum at...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Berkaloff C,Caron L,Rousseau B

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The world is facing energy crisis and environmental issues due to the depletion of fossil fuels and increasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. Growing microalgae can contribute to practical solutions for these global problems because they can harvest solar energy and capture CO2 by converting it into biofuel usin...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Razeghifard R

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chlorosome is an antenna complex located on the cytoplasmic side of the inner membrane in green photosynthetic bacteria that contains tens of thousands of self-assembled bacteriochlorophylls (BChls). Green bacteria are known to incorporate various esterifying alcohols at the C-17 propionate position of BChls in the ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Wang Y,Freund DM,Magdaong NM,Urban VS,Frank HA,Hegeman AD,Tang JK

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：:Ongoing work has led to the identification of most of the biochemical steps in carotenoid biosynthesis in chlorophototrophic bacteria. In carotenogenesis, a relatively small number of modifications leads to a great diversity of carotenoid structures. This review examines the individual steps in the pathway, discusses ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Maresca JA,Graham JE,Bryant DA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effect of chemical oxidation by ferricyanide on bacteriochlorophyll a (BChl a) in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein (FMO) was studied using absorbance and fluorescence spectroscopy at ambient and cryogenic temperatures. Partially selective oxidation of pigments bound to the antenna complex was achieved and the probable...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bina D,Blankenship RE

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthetic acclimation varies among species, which likely reveals variations at the biochemical level in the pathways that constitute carbon assimilation and energy transfer. Local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity affect the environmental response of photosynthesis. Phenotypic plasticity allows for a wide arra...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Cavanagh AP,Kubien DS

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fabaceae tree Butea monosperma (TAUB.; syn. Erythrina monosperma (LAM.)) is widely distributed in Central and West-India. We studied it at three sites, i.e. at two locations with contrasting exposure (NE and SW, respectively) in a small mountain range with poor soil on highly drained rocky slopes and at a third lo...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Mikosch M,Kumari N,Sharma T,Sharma V,Gessler A,Fischer-Schliebs E,Lüttge U

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：: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：:This article provides a glimpse into the dawning of research on chlorophyll-protein complexes and a brief recollection of the path that led us to the identification of the photosystem II reaction center, i.e., the polypeptides that carry the site of primary charge separation in oxygenic photosynthesis. A preliminary v...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Satoh K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two species-invariant tryptophan residues at positions 109 and 250 of tobacco Rubisco activase were identified by site-directed mutagenesis as being responsible for the increase in intrinsic fluorescence upon addition of ATP, which has been previously attributed to increased self-association. Substitution of W109, whi...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Wang D,Portis AR Jr

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron transfer pathways in photosynthesis involve interactions between membrane-bound complexes such as reaction centres with an extrinsic partner. In this study, the biological specificity of electron transfer between the reaction centre-light-harvesting 1-PufX complex and its extrinsic electron donor, cytochrome ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Vasilev C,Brindley AA,Olsen JD,Saer RG,Beatty JT,Hunter CN

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it has been believed that wild-type plants are capable of protecting photosystem I (PSI) under high light, our previous study indicates that PSI is sensitive to high light in the shade-established tree species Psychotria rubra. However, the underlying physiological mechanisms are unclear. In this study, we ex...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Huang W,Yang YJ,Zhang JL,Hu H,Zhang SB

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：: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