Light as an Energy Source and Information Carrier in Plant Physiology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996)

A NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Light as Energy Source and Information Carrier in Plant Photo physiology" was held at Volterra, Italy, from September 26 to October 6, 1994, in order to consider the fundamental role that light plays in plant growth and development. This book summarises the main lectures given at this meeting which concentrated on both photochemical energy conversion and signalling (photosensing) aspects. Light harvesting and conversion into chemical energy in photosynthesis occurs at the level of chlorophyll/carotenoid containing photosystems in plants. Pigments are non covalently bound to a variety of polypeptides which serve as a specific scaffolding, necessary to determine the energy coupling between pigments and thus allowing rapid excitation energy trasfer from the antenna to the special reaction centre chlorophylls. Data from transient, time resolved spectroscopies, in the femtosecond and picosecond domain, together with model calculations, suggest that this process occurs in the 20-100 picosecond time span. The special ll u ture of reaction centre complexes, ensures rapid primary charge separation, probably in the order of 1-3 picoseconds, with subsequent charge stabilisation reactions proceeding in the hundreds of picoseconds range. The recently resolved crystallographic structure of LHCII, the principal antenna complex of plants, allows precise determination of pigment-pigment distances and thus permits calculation of approximate chlorophyll-chlorophyll Forster hopping rates, which are in good agreement with time resolved measurements."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	NATO Science Series A:, 287
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	1996
Editors:	Robert C. Jennings • Guiseppe Zucchelli • Francesco Ghetti • Giuliano Colombetti
Dimensions:	244 x 170 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	310
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
ISBN-13:	978-1-4613-8039-9
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Biochemistry > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Botany & plant sciences > General
LSN:	1-4613-8039-1
Barcode:	9781461380399

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