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A pigment-binding protein essential for regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting.
Nature - 27 Jan 2000
Li X P, Björkman O, Shih C, Grossman A R, Rosenquist M, Jansson S, Niyogi K K
Abstract excerpt
Photosynthetic light harvesting in plants is regulated in response to changes in incident light intensity. Absorption of light that exceeds a plant's capacity for fixation of CO2 results in thermal dissipation of excitation energy in the pigment antenna of photosystem II by a poorly understood mechanism. This regulatory process, termed nonphotochemical quenching, maintains the balance between dissipation and...
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