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Light as an Energy Source and Information Carrier in Plant Physiology

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  1. Robert C. Jennings

    1. University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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  2. Giuseppe Zucchelli

    1. University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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  3. Francesco Ghetti

    1. CNR Institute of Biophysics, Pisa, Italy

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  4. Giuliano Colombetti

    1. CNR Institute of Biophysics, Pisa, Italy

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series A: (NSSA, volume 287)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Photosynthesis: An Overview

    • Giorgio Forti
    Pages 1-16

  3. Photosynthetic Electron Transfer and Energy Transduction in Plants

    • Donald R. Ort, John Whitmarsh
    Pages 17-29

  5. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Pigment Binding Proteins

    • Roberto Bassi, Elisabetta Giuffra, Roberta Croce, Paola Dainese, Elisabetta Bergantino
    Pages 41-63

  6. Spectral Heterogeneity and Energy Equilibration in Higher Plant Photosystems

    • Robert C. Jennings, Giuseppe Zucchelli, Laura Finzi, Flavio M. Garlaschi
    Pages 65-74

  7. Photosynthetic Reaction Centers

    • P. Mathis
    Pages 75-88

  8. Photoinhibition of Photosynthesis

    • Neil R. Baker
    Pages 89-97

  13. Molecular Basis of Photoreception

    • Francesco Lenci, Nicola Angelini, Antonella Sgarbossa
    Pages 147-157

  14. Photomorphogenic Systems

    • Winslow R. Briggs, Emmanuel Liscum, Paul W. Oeller, Julie M. Palmer
    Pages 159-167

  15. Overview of Photosensing in Plant Physiology

    • Wolfgang Haupt
    Pages 169-183

  17. Light Signal Transduction Mediated by Phytochromes

    • Debbie Sommer, Pill-Soon Song
    Pages 197-218
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About this book

A NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Light as Energy Source and Information Carrier in Plant Photo physiology" was held at Volterra, Italy, from September 26 to October 6, 1994, in order to consider the fundamental role that light plays in plant growth and development. This book summarises the main lectures given at this meeting which concentrated on both photochemical energy conversion and signalling (photosensing) aspects. Light harvesting and conversion into chemical energy in photosynthesis occurs at the level of chlorophyll/carotenoid containing photosystems in plants. Pigments are non­ covalently bound to a variety of polypeptides which serve as a specific scaffolding, necessary to determine the energy coupling between pigments and thus allowing rapid excitation energy trasfer from the antenna to the special reaction centre chlorophylls. Data from transient, time resolved spectroscopies, in the femtosecond and picosecond domain, together with model calculations, suggest that this process occurs in the 20-100 picosecond time span. The special ~ll u~ture of reaction centre complexes, ensures rapid primary charge separation, probably in the order of 1-3 picoseconds, with subsequent charge stabilisation reactions proceeding in the hundreds of picoseconds range. The recently resolved crystallographic structure of LHCII, the principal antenna complex of plants, allows precise determination of pigment-pigment distances and thus permits calculation of approximate chlorophyll-chlorophyll Forster hopping rates, which are in good agreement with time resolved measurements.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Robert C. Jennings, Giuseppe Zucchelli

  • CNR Institute of Biophysics, Pisa, Italy

    Francesco Ghetti, Giuliano Colombetti

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Light as an Energy Source and Information Carrier in Plant Physiology

  • Editors: Robert C. Jennings, Giuseppe Zucchelli, Francesco Ghetti, Giuliano Colombetti

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series A:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0409-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-8039-9Published: 04 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-0409-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 310

  • Topics: Biochemistry, general, Plant Sciences

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