Femtosecond time-resolved spectroscopy of the primary photochemistry of phytochrome

Biospectroscopy

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 421-433

  Andel III, Frank ^a   Hasson, K C ^b   Gai, Feng ^b   Anfinrud, Philip A ^b   Mathies, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Excited state lifetime; Fluorescence quantum yield; Photoisomerization mechanism; Plant photoreceptor

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000588014     PISSN: 10754261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6343(1997)3:6<421::AID-BSPY1>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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