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Disentangling the sites of non-photochemical quenching in vascular plants.
Nature plants - 1 Nov 2019
Nicol Lauren, Nawrocki Wojciech J, Croce Roberta
Abstract excerpt
In nature, plants experience large fluctuations in light intensity and they need to balance the absorption and utilization of this energy appropriately. Non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) is a rapidly switchable mechanism that protects plants from photodamage caused by high light exposure by dissipating the excess absorbed energy as heat. It is triggered by the pH gradient across the thylakoid membrane and...
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