Light-Harvesting Antennas in Photosynthesis

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxviii

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2. Introduction to Light-Harvesting

   1. Photosynthetic Membranes and Their Light-Harvesting Antennas

      • Beverley R. Green, Jan M. Anderson, William W. Parson

      Pages 1-28

   2. The Pigments

      • Hugo Scheer

      Pages 29-81

   3. Optical Spectroscopy in Photosynthetic Antennas

      • William W. Parson, V. Nagarajan

      Pages 83-127

   4. The Evolution of Light-harvesting Antennas

      • Beverley R. Green

      Pages 129-168

3. Structure and Function in Light-Harvesting

   1. The Light-Harvesting System of Purple Bacteria

      • Bruno Robert, Richard J. Cogdell, Rienk van Grondelle

      Pages 169-194

   2. Antenna Complexes from Green Photosynthetic Bacteria

      • Robert E. Blankenship, Katsumi Matsuura

      Pages 195-217

   3. Light-Harvesting in Photosystem II

      • Herbert van Amerongen, Jan P. Dekker

      Pages 219-251

   4. Structure and Function of the Antenna System in Photosystem I

      • Petra Fromme, Eberhard Schlodder, Stefan Jansson

      Pages 253-279

   5. Antenna Systems and Energy Transfer in Cyanophyta and Rhodophyta

      • Mamoru Mimuro, Hiroto Kikuchi

      Pages 281-306

   6. Antenna Systems of Red Algae: Phycobilisomes with Photosystem ll and Chlorophyll Complexes with Photosystem I

      • Elisabeth Gantt, Beatrice Grabowski, Francis X. Cunningham Jr.

      Pages 307-322

   7. Light-Harvesting Systems in Chlorophyll c-Containing Algae

      • Alisdair N. Macpherson, Roger G. Hiller

      Pages 323-352

4. Biogenesis, Regulation and Adaptation

   1. Biogenesis of Green Plant Thylakoid Membranes

      • Kenneth Cline

      Pages 353-372

   2. Pulse Amplitude Modulated Chlorophyll Fluorometry and its Application in Plant Science

      • G. Heinrich Krause, Peter Jahns

      Pages 373-399

   3. Photostasis in Plants, Green Algae and Cyanobacteria: The Role of Light Harvesting Antenna Complexes

      • Norman P. A. Huner, Gunnar Öquist, Anastasios Melis

      Pages 401-421

   4. Photoacclimation of Light Harvesting Systems in Eukaryotic Algae

      • Paul G. Falkowski, Yi-Bu Chen

      Pages 423-447

   5. Multi-level Regulation of Purple Bacterial Light-harvesting Complexes

      • Conan S. Young, J. Thomas Beatty

      Pages 449-470

   6. Environmental Regulation of Phycobilisome Biosynthesis

      • Arthur R. Grossman, Lorraine G. van Waasbergen, David Kehoe

      Pages 471-493

5. Back Matter

   Pages 495-515

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Light-Harvesting Antennas in Photosynthesis is concerned with the most important process on earth - the harvesting of light energy by photosynthetic organisms. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of photosynthetic light-harvesting antennas, from the biophysical mechanisms of light absorption and energy transfer to the structure, biosynthesis and regulation of antenna systems in whole organisms. It sets the great variety of antenna pigment-protein complexes in their evolutionary context and at the same time brings in the latest hi-tech developments. The book is unique in the degree to which it emphasizes the integration of molecular biological, biochemical and biophysical approaches. Overall, a well-organized, understandable, and comprehensive volume. It will be a valuable resource for both graduate students and their professors, and a helpful library reference book for undergraduates.

• development
• evolution
• photosynthesis
• plant
• protein
• regulation
• synthesis

• Botany Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  Beverley R. Green

• Biochemistry Department, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  William W. Parson

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