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Energy transfer in the photochemical apparatus of flashed bean leaves

Published inBiochimica et biophysica acta. Bioenergetics, vol. 449, no. 3, p. 412-419
Publication date1976-12
Abstract

Fluorescence and energy transfer properties of bean leaves greened by brief, repetitive xenon flashes were studied at −196 °C. The bleaching of P-700 has no influence on the yield of fluorescence at any wavelength of emission. The light-induced fluorescence yield changes which are observed in both the 690 and 730 nm emission bands in the low temperature fluorescence spectra are due to changes in the state of the Photosystem II reaction centers. The fluorescence yield changes in the 730 nm band are attributed to energy transfer from Photosystem II to Photosystem I. Such energy transfer was also confirmed by measurements of the rate of photooxidation of P-700 at −196 °C in leaves in which the Photosystem II reaction centers were either all open or all closed. It is concluded that energy transfer from Photosystem II to Photosystem I occurs in the flashed bean leaves which lack the light-harvesting chlorophyll ab protein.

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STRASSER, Reto, BUTLER, Warren L. Energy transfer in the photochemical apparatus of flashed bean leaves. In: Biochimica et biophysica acta. Bioenergetics, 1976, vol. 449, n° 3, p. 412–419. doi: 10.1016/0005-2728(76)90152-3
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