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Two mechanisms for dissipation of excess light in monomeric and trimeric light-harvesting complexes.
Nature plants - 10 Apr 2017
Dall'Osto Luca, Cazzaniga Stefano, Bressan Mauro, Paleček David, Židek Karel, Niyogi Krishna K, Fleming Graham R, Zigmantas Donatas, Bassi Roberto
Abstract excerpt
Oxygenic photoautotrophs require mechanisms for rapidly matching the level of chlorophyll excited states from light harvesting with the rate of electron transport from water to carbon dioxide. These photoprotective reactions prevent formation of reactive excited states and photoinhibition. The fastest response to excess illumination is the so-called non-photochemical quenching which, in higher plants, requires...
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