The carotenoid pathway: what is important for excitation quenching in plant antenna complexes?-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The carotenoid pathway: what is important for excitation quenching in plant antenna complexes?

Published:2017 Issue:34 Volume:19 Page:22957-22968
ISSN:1463-9076
Container-title:Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
language:en
Short-container-title:Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

Author:

Fox Kieran F.¹²³⁴,Balevičius Vytautas¹²³⁴^ORCID,Chmeliov Jevgenij⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹^ORCID,Valkunas Leonas⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹,Ruban Alexander V.¹²³⁴,Duffy Christopher D. P.¹²³⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Biological and Chemical Sciences

2. Queen Mary University of London

3. London E1 4NS

4. UK

5. Department of Theoretical Physics

6. Faculty of Physics

7. Vilnius University

8. Sauletekio Ave. 9

9. 10222 Vilnius

Abstract

Plant light-harvesting is regulated by the Non-Photochemical Quenching (NPQ) mechanism involving the slow trapping of excitation energy by carotenoids in the Photosystem II (PSII) antenna in response to high light.

Funder

Leverhulme Trust

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2017/CP/C7CP03535G

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