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Plant function and evolutionary biology
FOREWORD

Advanced technologies in studying plant photosynthesis: principles and applications

Alonso Zavafer https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8905-1618 A , Dayong Fan B * and Keach Murakami https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8150-9535 C
+ Author Affiliations
- Author Affiliations

A Plant Science Division, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2001, Australia.

B Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center (HARC), National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), 1 Hitsujigaoka, Toyohira, Sapporo 062-8555, Japan.

C College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry, University, Beijing 100083, China.

* Correspondence to: dayong73fan@163.com

Handling Editor: Sergey Shabala

Functional Plant Biology 49(6) i-iii https://doi.org/10.1071/FP22050
Published: 9 May 2022

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

Abstract

The foreword to this special issue on the advanced technologies in studying photosynthesis focuses on the main contributions of Fred Chow, one of the key Australian scientists studying light reactions in plants.

Keywords: photodamage, photoinhibition, photosystem I, photosystem II.


References

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Osmond CB, Chow WS, Robinson SA (2022) Inhibition of non-photochemical quenching increases functional absorption cross-section of photosystem II as excitation from closed reaction centres is transferred to open centres, facilitating earlier light saturation of photosynthetic electron transport. Functional Plant Biology 49, 463–482.
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