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：: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：:We pay tribute to the life and work of Margareta Ryberg (1946-2012). She was an expert on the different forms of protochlorophyll(ide), their protein partners, and their transformations in angiosperms; on the structural aspects, and the nature of prolamellar bodies, as well as on the localization of light-dependent NA...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Ryberg H,Björn LO,Skagerfält B,Björn G

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroalgae occur in the marine benthos from the upper intertidal to depths of more than 200 m, contributing up to 1 Pg C per year to global primary productivity. Freshwater macroalgae are mainly green (Chlorophyta) with some red (Rhodophyta) and a small contribution of brown (Phaeophyceae) algae, while in the ocean al...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Raven JA,Hurd CL

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light energy harvested by the pigments in Photosystem I (PSI) is used for charge separation in the reaction center (RC), after which the positive charge resides on a special chlorophyll dimer called P700. In studies on the PSI trapping kinetics, P700(+) is usually chemically reduced to re-open the RCs. So far, the inf...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Wientjes E,Croce R

更新日期：2012-03-01 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 biogenesis and oxygen-evolving activity of cyanobacterial Photosystem II (PSII) is dependent on a number of accessory proteins not found in the crystallised dimeric complex. These include Psb27, a small lipoprotein attached to the lumenal side of PSII, which has been assigned a role in regulating the assembly of t...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Michoux F,Takasaka K,Boehm M,Komenda J,Nixon PJ,Murray JW

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:The chloroplast genome of the highly neutral-lipid-producing marine pennate diatom Fistulifera sp. strain JPCC DA0580 was fully sequenced using high-throughput pyrosequencing. The general features and gene content were compared with three other complete diatom chloroplast genomes. The chloroplast genome is 134,918 bp ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Tanaka T,Fukuda Y,Yoshino T,Maeda Y,Muto M,Matsumoto M,Mayama S,Matsunaga T

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Using a novel, pulsed micro-second time-resolved photoacoustic (PA) instrument, we measured thermal dissipation and energy storage (ES) in the intact cells of wild type (WT) Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, and mutants lacking either PSI or PSII reaction centers (RCs). On this time scale, the kinetic contributions of the th...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Yan C,Schofield O,Dubinsky Z,Mauzerall D,Falkowski PG,Gorbunov MY

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When CO(2) supply is limited, aquatic photosynthetic organisms induce a CO(2)-concentrating mechanism (CCM) and acclimate to the CO(2)-limiting environment. Although the CCM is well studied in unicellular green algae such as Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, physiological aspects of the CCM and its associated genes in multic...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Yamano T,Fujita A,Fukuzawa H

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recycling of carbon by the photorespiratory pathway involves enzymatic steps in the chloroplast, mitochondria, and peroxisomes. Most of these reactions are essential for plants growing under ambient CO(2) concentrations. However, some disruptions of photorespiratory metabolism cause subtle phenotypes in plants grown i...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Cousins AB,Walker BJ,Pracharoenwattana I,Smith SM,Badger MR

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently a renewed interest in developing microalgae as a source of renewable energy and fuel. Microalgae hold great potential as a source of biomass for the production of energy and fungible liquid transportation fuels. However, the technologies required for large-scale cultivation, processing, and conversi...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： McGinn PJ,Dickinson KE,Bhatti S,Frigon JC,Guiot SR,O'Leary SJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

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：: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 xanthophyll cycle represents one of the important photoprotection mechanisms in plant cells. In the present review, we summarize current knowledge about the violaxanthin cycle of vascular plants, green and brown algae, and the diadinoxanthin cycle of the algal classes Bacillariophyceae, Xanthophyceae, Haptophyceae...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Goss R,Jakob T

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：: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：:To investigate the impact of iron deficiency on bioenergetic pathways in Chlamydomonas, we compared growth rates, iron content, and photosynthetic parameters systematically in acetate versus CO(2)-grown cells. Acetate-grown cells have, predictably (2-fold) greater abundance of respiration components but also, counter-...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Terauchi AM,Peers G,Kobayashi MC,Niyogi KK,Merchant SS

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence and electron paramagnetic resonance measurements were used to study selenium influence on photosystem activity in rape seedlings affected by Cd stress. Water cultures containing Hoagland nutrients were supplemented with 400 microM of CdCl(2), 2 microM of Na(2)SeO(4) and a mixture of both CdCl(2) and Na(2)...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Filek M,Kościelniak J,Łabanowska M,Bednarska E,Bidzińska E

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorobium tepidum is a Gram-negative bacterium of the green sulfur phylum (Chlorobia). Chlorobia are obligate anaerobic photolithoautotrophs that are widely distributed in aquatic environments where anoxic layers containing reduced sulfur compounds are exposed to light. The envelope of C. tepidum is a complex organel...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Kouyianou K,Aivaliotis M,Gevaert K,Karas M,Tsiotis G

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Green sulfur bacteria and heliobacteria are strictly anaerobic phototrophs that have homodimeric type 1 reaction center complexes. Within these complexes, highly reducing substances are produced through an initial charge separation followed by electron transfer reactions driven by light energy absorption. In order to ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Azai C,Tsukatani Y,Itoh S,Oh-oka H

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heliobacteria are a recently discovered group of anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria, first described in 1983. Heliobacteria contain bacteriochlorophyll g, a pigment unique to species of this group, and synthesize the simplest photosynthetic complexes of all known phototrophs. Also, unlike all other phototrophs, heliobac...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Asao M,Madigan MT

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-translational modification consisting in the formation/reduction of disulfide bonds has been the subject of intense research in plants since the discovery in the 1970s that many chloroplastic enzymes are regulated by light through dithiol-disulfide exchange reactions catalyzed by oxidoreductases called thiore...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Chibani K,Couturier J,Selles B,Jacquot JP,Rouhier N

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light-induced reaction dynamics of isolated photosynthetic membranes obtained from wild-type (WT) and reaction center (RC)-subunit deletion strains SPUHK1 (an H-subunit deletion mutant) and SK Delta LM (an (L+M) deletion mutant) of the purple non-sulphur bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum have been investigated by femtos...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Amarie S,Lupo D,Lenz MO,Saegesser R,Ghosh R,Wachtveitl J

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：: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

abstract：:Photoinhibition of Photosystem II (PSII) in lincomycin-treated leaves begins as a first-order reaction, but fluorescence measurements have suggested that after prolonged illumination, the number of active PSII centres stabilizes to 15-20% of control. The stabilization has been interpreted to indicate that photoinhibit...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sarvikas P,Tyystjärvi T,Tyystjärvi E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) hybrid methods are currently the most powerful computational tools for studies of structure/function relations and structural refinement of macrobiomolecules (e.g., proteins and nucleic acids). These methods are highly efficient, since they implement quantum chemistry tech...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sproviero EM,Newcomer MB,Gascón JA,Batista ER,Brudvig GW,Batista VS

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we describe a new imaging setup able to assess in vivo photosynthetic activity. The system specifically measures time-resolved chlorophyll fluorescence in response to light. It is composed of a fast digital camera equipped with a wide-angle lens for the analysis of samples up to 10 x 10 cm, i.e. entire plants or...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Johnson X,Vandystadt G,Bujaldon S,Wollman FA,Dubois R,Roussel P,Alric J,Béal D

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I provide here a personal perspective on (i) the awards that were given to young investigators at the 2008 and 2009 Gordon Research Conferences on Biochemistry/Biophysics of Photosynthesis; and (ii) the ambiance at these conferences through some photographs, particularly of the 2009 conference. ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Govindjee

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photophysical and photochemical reactions, after light absorption by a photosynthetic pigment-protein complex, are among the fastest events in biology, taking place on timescales ranging from tens of femtoseconds to a few nanoseconds. The advent of ultrafast laser systems that produce pulses with femtosecond durat...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Berera R,van Grondelle R,Kennis JT

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy probes the vibrational properties of amino acids and cofactors, which are sensitive to minute structural changes. The lack of specificity of this technique, on the one hand, permits us to probe directly the vibrational properties of almost all the cofactors, amino acid si...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Berthomieu C,Hienerwadel R

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the dark-to-light transition in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 cells by a detailed analysis of fluorescence transients induced by strong red light. The transients, recorded with high data-acquisition, revealed all the steps of the fast (OJIP; 10(-5)-1 s) and slow phase (PSM(T); 1-10(3) s), kinetically dist...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Tsimilli-Michael M,Stamatakis K,Papageorgiou GC

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipids are important components of transmembrane protein complexes. In order to study the roles of lipids in photosystem II (PSII), we treated the PSII core dimer complex from a thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus vulcanus with phospholipase A(2) (PLA(2)) and lipase, and examined their effects on PSII stru...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Leng J,Sakurai I,Wada H,Shen JR

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:The D1/D2 heterodimer core is the heart of the photosystem II reaction center. A characteristic feature of this heterodimer is the differentially rapid, light-dependent degradation of the D1 protein. The D1 protein is possibly the most researched photosynthetic polypeptide, with aspects of structure-function, gene, me...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Edelman M,Mattoo AK

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteria, algae, and plants produce dioxygen from water. Driven and clocked by light quanta, the catalytic Mn(4)Ca Tyrosine centre accumulates four oxidizing equivalents before it abstracts four electrons from water and liberates dioxygen and protons. Intermediates of this reaction cascade are short-lived (<100 m...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Clausen J,Junge W

更新日期：2008-10-01 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