Discoveries in Photosynthesis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Govindjee (Editor), Beatty, J. Thomas (Editor), Gest, Howard (Editor), Allen, John F. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, 20
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biochemistry.; Plant biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Microbiology.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant physiology.; Life Sciences.; Biochemistry, general.; Plant Physiology.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Biochemistry.; Cell Biology.

"Life Is Bottled Sunshine" [Wynwood Reade, Martyrdom of Man, 1924]. This inspired phrase is a four-word summary of the significance of photosynthesis for life on earth. The study of photosynthesis has attracted the attention of a legion of biologists, biochemists, chemists and physicists f...

Table of Contents:

• Editorials
• Overviews and Timelines
• Tributes
• Excitation Energy Transfer
• Reaction Centers
• Oxygen Evolution
• Light-Harvesting and Pigment-Protein Complexes
• Electron Transport and ATP Synthesis
• Techniques and Applications
• Biogenesis and Membrane Architecture
• Reductive and Assimilatory Processes
• Transport, Regulation and Adaptation
• Genetics
• Evolution
• Laboratories and National Perspectives
• Retrospectives.