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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Research note: Energy partitioning in photosystem II complexes subjected to photoinhibitory treatment

Dmytro Kornyeyev A B and Luke Hendrickson C D
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A Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Vasylkivska St. 31/17, 03022, Kyiv, Ukraine.

B Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA.

C ARC Centre for Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, GPO Box 475, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.

D Corresponding author. Email: luke.hendrickson@anu.edu.au

Functional Plant Biology 34(3) 214-220 https://doi.org/10.1071/FP06327
Submitted: 11 December 2006  Accepted: 14 February 2007   Published: 22 March 2007

Abstract

Chlorophyll a fluorescence measured in vivo is frequently used to study the role of different processes influencing the distribution of excitation energy in PSII complexes. Such studies are important for understanding the regulation of photosynthetic electron transport. However, at the present time, there is no unified methodology to analyse the energy partitioning in PSII. In this article, we critically assess several approaches recently developed in this area of research and propose new simple equations, which can be used for de-convolution of non-photochemical energy quenching in PSII complexes.

Additional keywords: Capsicum annuum, photoinactivation, thermal dissipation.


Acknowledgements

D. K. was funded by USDA grant #99-35100-7630 (National Research Initiative Grants Program) to A. S. Holaday, B. A. Logan, R. Allen (PIs). L. H. was funded by the Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence in Plant Energy Biology.


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