Functional mechanism of water splitting photosynthesis

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 55-77

  Witt, Horst Tobias ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

crystallization; electrochromism; energy migration; phosphorylation; photosystems; plastoquinones; reaction centers; repetitive flash spectroscopy; vectorial reactions; water cleavage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008887879     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: 15735079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00035377     Document Type: Editorial

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