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A dual strategy to cope with high light in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
The Plant cell - 1 Feb 2013
Allorent Guillaume, Tokutsu Ryutaro, Roach Thomas, Peers Graham, Cardol Pierre, Girard-Bascou Jacqueline, Seigneurin-Berny Daphné, Petroutsos Dimitris, Kuntz Marcel, Breyton Cécile, Franck Fabrice, Wollman Francis-André, Niyogi Krishna K, Krieger-Liszkay Anja, Minagawa Jun, Finazzi Giovanni
Abstract excerpt
Absorption of light in excess of the capacity for photosynthetic electron transport is damaging to photosynthetic organisms. Several mechanisms exist to avoid photodamage, which are collectively referred to as nonphotochemical quenching. This term comprises at least two major processes. State transitions (qT) represent changes in the relative antenna sizes of photosystems II and I. High energy quenching (qE) is...
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