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Chloroplast movement provides photoprotection to plants by redistributing PSII damage within leaves.
Photosynthesis research - 1 Sept 2012
Davis Phillip A, Hangarter Roger P
Abstract excerpt
Plants use light to fix carbon through the process of photosynthesis but light also causes photoinhibition, by damaging photosystem II (PSII). Plants can usually adjust their rate of PSII repair to equal the rate of damage, but under stress conditions or supersaturating light-intensities damage may exceed the rate of repair. Light-induced chloroplast movements are one of the many mechanisms plants have evolved to...
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