Chlorophyll organization and energy transfer in photosynthesis

• Record Nr.: UNISA996206969803316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Excerpta Medica, 1979
• ISBN: 1-280-78375-3; 9786613694140; 0-470-72043-3; 0-470-71811-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (388 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 61 (new ser.)
• Disciplina: 581.1/3342
• Soggetti: Photosynthesis; Chlorophyll; Energy transfer
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Proceedings of the symposium held Feb. 7-9, 1978 in London.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibligraphical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Chlorophyll Organization and Energy Transfer in Photosynthesis; Contents; Chairman's opening remarks; Structure and function in photoreaction-centre chlorophyll; Discussion; Properties of chlorophyll on plasticized polyethylene particles; Discussion; The preparation and characterization of different types of light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes from some purple bacteria; Discussion; Chlorophyll-protein complexes of brown algae: P700 reaction centre and light-harvesting complexes; Discussion; Resonance Raman spectroscopy of chlorophyll-protein complexes; Discussion; The field of possible structures for the chlorophyll a dimer in photosystem I of green plants delineated by polarized photochemistry Discussion; Effects of ions and gravity forces on the supramolecular organization and excitation energy distribution in chloroplast membranes; Discussion; Fluorescence of light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-protein complexes: implications for the photosynthetic unit; Discussion; Energy transfer in a model of the photosynthetic unit; Discussion; Dynamics of excitons created by a single picosecond pulse; Discussion; Chlorophyll orientation and exciton migration in the photosynthetic ; membrane Discussion; Tripartite and bipartite models of the photochemical apparatus of photosynthesis; Discussion; Picosecond fluorescence from photosynthetic systems in vivo; Discussion; Energy transfer and its dependence on membrane properties; Discussion; Quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence and photochemical activity of chloroplasts at low temperature; Discussion; Transfer and trapping of excitation energy in photosystem II; Discussion; General discussion; Some retrospective comments; Manganese and the evolution of oxygen; The state of chlorophyll in photosystem I, photosystem II and the light-harvesting unit Grosser structure of chlorophyll-protein complexes; Comparison of the Paillotin-Swenberg kinetic theory and the Searle-Tredwell empirical treatment; Index of contributors; Subject index