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：:Cross-reconstitution of the extrinsic proteins and Photosystem II (PS II) from a green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, and a higher plant,Spinacia oleracea, was performed to clarify the differences of binding properties of the extrinsic proteins between these two species of organisms. (1) Chlamydomonas PsbP and PsbQ ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Suzuki T,Ohta H,Enami I

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of the extraordinary high redox potential of P680, the primary electron donor of Photosystem II, is still unknown. Photochemically induced dynamic nuclear polarisation (photo-CIDNP) 13C magic-angle spinning (MAS) NMR is a powerful method to study primary electron donors. In order to reveal the electronic st...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Diller A,Alia,Roy E,Gast P,van Gorkom HJ,Zaanen J,de Groot HJ,Glaubitz C,Matysik J

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of primary and secondary nitrogen metabolism in plants by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is comprehensively reviewed. NMR is a versatile analytical tool, and the combined use of (1)H, (2)H, (13)C, (14)N and (15)N NMR allows detailed investigation of the acquisition, assimilation and metabol...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Mesnard F,Ratcliffe RG

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the discovery of targeted gene replacement, moss biology has been rapidly advancing over the last 10 years. This study demonstrates the usefulness of moss as a model organism for plant photosynthesis research. The two mosses examined in this study, Physcomitrella patens and Ceratodon purpureus, are easily culture...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Thornton LE,Keren N,Ohad I,Pakrasi HB

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The previous work in our lab showed that the spinach chloroplast ATP synthase epsilon mutant with 3 amino acid residues deleted from the N-terminus had much lower ability to inhibit ATP hydrolysis and block proton leakage in comparison to a mutant with 1 or 2 residues deleted from the N-terminus. The present study aim...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Zeng X,Ni Z,Shi X,Wei J,Shen Y

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The water-oxidation complex of Photosystem II (PS II) contains a heteronuclear cluster of 4 Mn atoms and a Ca atom. Ligands to the metal cluster involve bridging O atoms, and O and N atoms from amino acid side-chains of the D1 polypeptide of PS II, with likely additional contributions from water and CP43. Although mod...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sauer K,Yano J,Yachandra VK

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein was isolated from membranes of the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum. This protein was characterized by gel electrophoresis, gel filtration, analytical ultracentrifugation and amino acid sequencing. The molecular weight of the purified protein was shown to be 26 kDa by SDS-PAGE. HPLC gelfiltration, S...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Aivaliotis M,Neofotistou E,Rémigy HW,Tsimpinos G,Lustig A,Lottspeich F,Tsiotis G

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article summarizes knowledge on genes and their respective proteins in the field of green algal hydrogen research. Emphasis is placed on recently cloned genes from the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, including HydA1 and HydA2, which encode homologous [Fe]-hydrogenases, Tla1, which encodes a chlo...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Melis A,Seibert M,Happe T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of Fe resupply to Fe-deficient plants have been investigated in hydroponically-grown sugar beet. In the short-term (24 h) after Fe resupply, major changes were observed, although de novo chlorophyll (Chl) synthesis had not begun yet. Approximately 50% of the zeaxanthin was converted into violaxanthin, wher...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Larbi A,Abadía A,Morales F,Abadía J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the ferredoxin:thioredoxin system in the reversible light activation of chloroplast enzymes by thiol-disulfide interchange with thioredoxins is now well established. Recent fruitful collaboration between biochemists and structural biologists, reflected by the shared authorship of the paper, allowed to solv...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Dai S,Johansson K,Miginiac-Maslow M,Schürmann P,Eklund H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated mesophyll cells from darkened leaves of the C(4) plant Digitaria sanguinalis keep functional plasmodesmata that allow the free exchange of low molecular mass compounds with the surrounding medium. This cell suspension system has been used to measure C(4) PEPC activity in situ using a spectrophotometric assay....

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Pierre JN,Prieto JL,Gadal P,Vidal J

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:In this article I review the history of research on the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) protein with emphasis on my contributions. The FMO protein, which transfers energy from the chlorosome to the reaction center in green sulfur bacteria, was discovered in 1962 and shown to contain bacteriochlorophyll a. From the absorpti...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Olson JM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

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：:In many ways, the 1963 conference at Airlie House was an unusual event. The meeting convincingly demonstrated that photosynthetic research, previously reported mostly at conferences of botany and/or plant physiology, had become an independent and important field of biological research. New techniques had been develope...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Rurainski HJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulse modulated fluorescence has increasingly been used as an ecological tool to examine changes in the vertical distribution of microphytobenthic cells within the upper layers of estuarine sediments (most often using the minimum fluorescence yield F(o)) as well as to indicate the health of the community (using the ma...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Consalvey M,Jesus B,Perkins RG,Brotas V,Underwood GJ,Paterson DM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to the linear electron transport, several alternative Photosystem I-driven (PS I) electron pathways recycle the electrons to the intersystem electron carriers mediated by either ferredoxin:NADPH reductase, NAD(P)H dehydrogenase, or putative ferredoxin:plastoquinone reductase. The following functions have b...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bukhov N,Carpentier R

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:Cuttings of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L. cv. Chardonnay) were dark-forced at least three weeks. Pigment contents, 77 K fluorescence emission, excitation spectra of the leaves, petioles, stems, transmission electron micrographs of the etioplasts from leaves, the chlorenchyma tissues of the stems were analysed. The dark...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Böddi B,Bòka K,Sundqvist C

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of a complete genome database for the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 (glucose-tolerant strain) has raised expectations that this organism would become a reference strain for work aimed at understanding the CO(2)-concentrating mechanism (CCM) in cyanobacteria. However, the amount of physiolog...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Benschop JJ,Badger MR,Dean Price G

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various techniques of electron microscopy (EM) such as ultrathin sectioning, freeze-fracturing, freeze-etching, negative staining and (cryo-)electron crystallography of two-dimensional crystals have been employed, since now, to obtain much of the structural information of the Photosystem II (PS II) pigment-protein com...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bumba L,Vácha FE

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：: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：:Dan Arnon, Bob Whatley, Mary Belle Allen, and their colleagues, were the first to obtain evidence for 'complete photosynthesis by isolated chloroplasts' albeit at rates which were 1% or less of those displayed by the intact leaf. By the 1960s, partly in the hope of confirming full functionality, there was a perceived ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Walker DA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first research paper on photosynthesis in China was published by T.T. Li(2) in 1929. Two photosynthesis laboratories were established in Shanghai and Beijing in the 1950s and the 1960s, respectively. A photophosphorylation 'intermediate' was discovered after the energy conversion process was separated into light a...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Kuang TY,Xu C,Li LB,Shen YK

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, relatively few proteomics studies of chloroplast have been published, but the field has just started emerging and is likely to develop more rapidly in the future. While the complex membrane structure of the chloroplast makes it difficult to study its entire proteome by global approaches, proteomics has cons...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Schröder WP,Kieselbach T

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By recording leaf transmittance at 820 nm and quantifying the photon flux density of far red light (FRL) absorbed by long-wavelength chlorophylls of Photosystem I (PS I), the oxidation kinetics of electron carriers on the PS I donor side was mathematically analyzed in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.), tobacco (Nicotia...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Oja V,Eichelmann H,Peterson RB,Rasulov B,Laisk A

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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

abstract：:Using 77 K chlorophyll a (Chl a) fluorescence spectra in vivo, the development was studied of Photosystems II (PS II) and I (PS I) during greening of barley under intermittent light followed by continuous light at low (LI, 50 mumol m(-2) s(-1)) and high (HI, 1000 mumol m(-2) s(-1)) irradiances. The greening at HI inte...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Cajánek M,Navrátil M,Kurasová I,Kalina J,Spunda V

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mg-dechelating activity of extracts of Chenopodium album (goosefoot) was investigated using an artificial substrate, chlorophyllin a. The activity was measured spectrophotometrically by the formation of a reaction product, pheophorbin a (Mg-free chlorin), after release of the central Mg. The Mg-releasing protein w...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Suzuki T,Shioi Y

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A guided tour through much of photosynthesis research as I saw it, 1936-2001, is presented here. For earlier perspectives, see Myers 1974 (Plant Physiol 54: 420-426) and 1996 (Photosynth Res 50: 195-208). ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Myers J

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：: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：:This article gives an historical overview of our group's research on various metabolite translocators of chloroplasts, such as the translocators for phosphorylated intermediates of the Calvin-Benson cycle and of glycolysis, of ADP and ATP, of dicarboxylates, of pyruvate and of hexoses; how it began and where it led to...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Heldt HW

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00