abstract：:Photosynthesis was well-established on the earth at least 3.5 thousand million years ago, and it is widely believed that these ancient organisms had similar metabolic capabilities to modern cyanobacteria. This requires that development of two photosystems and the oxygen evolution capability occurred very early in the...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Blankenship RE

更新日期：1992-01-01 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 polypeptide composition of thylakoid membranes of the red alga Cyanidium caldarium was studied by PAGE in the presence of lithium dodecyl sulfate. The thylakoid membranes were shown to contain 65 polypeptides with mol wt from 110 to 10 kDa. PS I isolated from C. caldarium cells is composed of at least 5 components...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Yurina NP,Karakashev GV,Karapetyan NV,Odintsova MS

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historically, two main concepts guided research into possible mechanisms of light-induced atomic rearrangements in oxygenic photosynthesis: Photodecomposition of CO2 and photodecomposition of water. Both concepts envisioned photoinduced transfers of cumbersome whole atoms and not, as is currently held, photoinduced el...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Arnon DI

更新日期：1991-09-01 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：:A chloroplast preparation was extracted from squash (Cucurbita pepo (L.) var. Senator). Enrichment of intact chloroplasts was achieved by continuous free-flow electrophoresis. The addition of monoterpenes, detergent and free fatty acids changed the elecrophoretic separation pattern characteristically. Monoterpene-depe...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Klingler H,Frosch S,Wagner E

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural analogues of the NADP(+) were studied as potential coenzymes and inhibitors for NADP(+) dependent malic enzyme from Zea mays L. leaves. Results showed that 1, N(6)-etheno-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (∈ NADP(+)), 3-acetylpyridine-adenine dinucleotide phosphate (APADP(+)), nicotinamide-hypoxan...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Spampinato CP,Paneth P,O'Leary MH,Andreo CS

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of interaction of cytochrome b-559 high potential (HP) with electron transport on the reducing side of photosystem II was investigated by measuring the susceptibility of cytochrome b-559HP to 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU) under different conditions. Submicromolar DCMU concentrations decreas...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Samson G,Fork DC

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years the enzymes of the C3 photosynthetic carbon reduction (PCR) cycle have been studied using the techniques of molecular biology. In this review we discuss the primary protein sequences and structural predictions that have been made for a number of these enzymes, which, with the input of crystallographic ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Raines CA,Lloyd JC,Dyer TA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author gives an autobiographical sketch of his path to chlorophyll research, and describes some results. The discussion is largely focused on long wavelength forms of chlorophyll and how they might be generated by self-assembly. Dimers or oligomers, (Chl)n, result from coordination interactions between the central...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Katz JJ

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic fluorochromous lipid, rhodaminyl triglyceride (rhodaminyl TG), was intercalated into isolated thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts up to 30 molecules per 100 molecules of chlorophyll. As a result of fluorochrome presence, an absorption band appeared in a yellow-green spectrum region, its intensity being com...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sorokin EM,Bobylyev GS,Molotkovsky YG

更新日期：1990-11-01 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 quenching of variable fluorescence yield (qN) and the quenching of dark level fluorescence yield (q0) directly atributable to high-energy-state fluorescence quenching (qE) was studied to distinguish between energy dissipation in the antenna and light harvesting complexes (antenna quenching) and energy dissipation ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Rees D,Noctor GD,Horton P

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When excited by ultraviolet radiation, leaves of a great number of species of higher plants exhibit emission of blue fluorescence, comparable in intensity to the red emission of chlorophyll. The fluorescence decay of the blue emission of spinach leaves recorded by single photon counting techniques is decomposed into e...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Goulas Y,Moya I,Schmuck G

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr. cv. Williams 82 and A3127] plants were grown in the field under long-term soil moisture deficit and irrigation to determine the effects of severe drought stress on the photosynthetic capacity of soybean leaves. Afternoon leaf water potentials, stomatal conductances, intercellular CO2 co...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Frederick JR,Alm DM,Hesketh JD,Below FE

更新日期：1990-07-01 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：:This review presents a summary of recent investigations examining the structure and function of the chlorophyll-proteins CPa-1 (CP47) and CPa-2 (CP43). Comparisons of the derived amino acid sequences of these proteins suggest sites for chlorophyll binding and for interactions between these chlorophyll-proteins and oth...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bricker TM

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A non-competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) which enables detection of as little as 0.1 ng cytochrome f in leaf extracts has been developed. No evidence for specific or non-specific interference by proteins other than cytochrome f was found. The assay was applied to a comparative study of age-related c...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Davies TG,Thomas H,Rogers LJ

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two green algal species, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Scenedesmus obliquus, exhibited a relative maximum during the decay of luminescence, when adapted to low CO2 conditions that was not observed in high CO2 adapted cells.From the kinetics of transient changes in the level of dark fluorescence, after illumination and...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sundblad LG,Samuelsson G,Wigge B,Gardeström P

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：:Oxygen evolving photosystem II particles were exposed to 100 and 250 W m(-2) white light at 20°C under aerobic, anaerobic and strongly reducing (presence of dithionite) conditions. Three types of photoinactivation processes with different kinetics could be distinguished: (1) The fast process which occurs under strongl...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Setlík I,Allakhverdiev SI,Nedbal L,Setlíková E,Klimov VV

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of protein phosphorylation and cation depletion on the electron transport rate and fluorescence emission characteristics of photosystem I at two stages of chloroplast development in light-grown wheat leaves are examined. The light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein complex associated with photosystem I (LH...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bredenkamp GJ,Baker NR

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：: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

abstract：:We investigated several photosynthetic parameters of a virescent mutant of durum wheat and of its wild-type. Electron transport rate to ferricyanide was the same in the two genotypes when expressed on leaf area basis while O2 evolution of the leaf tissue in saturating light and CO2 was slightly higher in the yellow ge...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Marco GD,D'Ambrosio N,Giardi MT,Massacci A,Tricoli D

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The linear dichroism of Photosystem I particles containing 10 chlorophylls per P700 has been investigated at 10 K. The particles were oriented by uniaxial squeezing of polyacrylamide gels. The oxidation state of P700 was altered either by incubation of the gels with redox mediators or by low temperature illumination. ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Breton J,Ikegami I

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra- and inter-specific variation in CO2 assimilation rate (A) in Triticum spp. is well documented for reproductive growth stages. Research was conducted to characterize early vegetative photosynthetic variation in a diverse set of cultivated hexaploid wheat (T. aestivum L.) germplasm and in wild tetraploid (T. dico...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Carver BF,Johnson RC,Rayburn AL

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperature dependence of the partial reactions leading to turn-over of the UQH2:cyt c 2 oxidoreductase of Rhodobacter sphaeroides have been studied. The redox properties of the cytochrome components show a weak temperature dependence over the range 280-330 K, with coefficients of about 1 m V per degree; our resul...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Crofts AR,Wang Z

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light activation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from the leaves of the C4 plant Setaria verticillata (L.) is more pronounced at low CO2 levels. The 2-fold activation observed at physiological ambient CO2 becomes 3.64-fold at 5 μL/L and completely abolished above 700 μL/L. When the stomata close under the influence...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Samaras Y,Manetas Y

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of a new maize (Zea mays L.) transposon system, Mutator, and the cloning of the 1.4 kilobase transposon, Mul, have made feasible the isolation of nuclear photosynthetic genes which are recognized only by their mutant phenotype. Mutant maize plants which express a high chlorophyll fluorescent (hcf) phenot...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Cook WB,Miles D

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this communication, evidence is presented from the kinetics of QA (-) decay (where QA is the first plastoquinone electron acceptor of photosystem II) and oxygen evolution for the requirement of bicarbonate in the electron transport in a cyanobacteriumSynechocystis (Pasteur Culture Collection 6803). A large slowing ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Cao J,Govindjee

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferredoxin and the flavoprotein, ferredoxin: NADP reductase, have been covalently linked by incubation in the presence of a water soluble carbodiimide. The cross-linking reaction yields an adduct having a 1:1 stoichiometry. The adduct has depressed levels of diaphorase and NADPH oxidase activity and is inactive in red...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Colvert KK,Davis DJ

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phycobilisomes, comprised of both chromophoric (phycobiliproteins) and non-chromophoric (linker polypeptides) proteins, are light-harvesting complexes present in the prokaryotic cyanobacteria and the eukaryotic red algae. Many cyanobacteria exhibit complementary chromatic adaptation, a process which enables these orga...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Grossman AR,Lemaux PG,Conley PB,Bruns BU,Anderson LK

更新日期：1988-07-01 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：:Several protein-coding genes from land plant chloroplasts have been shown to contain introns. The majority of these introns resemble the fungal mitochondrial group II introns due to considerable nucleotide sequence homology at their 5' and 3' ends and they can readily be folded to form six hairpins characteristic of t...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Plant AL,Gray JC

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of chlorophyll a fluorescence and photosynthesis as affected by temperature were measured in cucumber leaf discs. Abrupt changes of the maximal variable fluorescence, Fv(p), and photosynthesis were observed around 9° and 21°C when the temperature was decreased from 30° to 0°C. The temperature-dependent maxim...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Janssen LH,Van Hasselt PR

更新日期：1988-02-01 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：: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 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：: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