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Mixed population hypothesis of the active and inactive PSII complexes opens a new door for photoinhibition and fluorescence studies: an ecophysiological perspective

Masaru Kono https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1543-937X A * , Kazunori Miyata A , Sae Matsuzawa A , Takaya Noguchi A , Riichi Oguchi A , Yoshihiro Suzuki B and Ichiro Terashima https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7680-9867 A
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A Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.

B Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kanagawa University, 2946 Tsuchiya, Hiratsuka-City, Kanagawa 259-1293, Japan.

* Correspondence to: konom07@bs.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Handling Editor: Alonso Zavafer

Functional Plant Biology 49(10) 917-925 https://doi.org/10.1071/FP21355
Submitted: 27 July 2021  Accepted: 20 June 2022   Published: 13 July 2022

© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing

Abstract

The current hypotheses for the mechanisms of photosystem II (PSII) photodamage in vivo remain split on the primary damage site. However, most researchers have considered that PSII is inhibited by a sole mechanism and that the photoinhibited PSII consists of one population. In this perspective, we propose ‘the mixed population hypothesis’, in which there are four PSII populations: PSII with active/inactive Mn4CaO5 oxygen-evolving complex respectively with functional/damaged primary quinone (QA) reduction activity. This hypothesis provides a new insight into not only the PSII photoinhibition/photoprotection studies but also the repair process. We discuss our new data implying that the repair rate differs in the respective PSII populations.

Keywords: Mn4CaO5 oxygen-evolving complex, photodamage, photoinhibition, photoprotection, photosystem II, photon flux density, repair, the mixed population hypothesis.


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