High pressure studies of energy transfer and strongly coupled bacteriochlorophyll dimers in photosynthetic protein complexes

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 277-289

  Reddy, N R S ^a   Wu, H M ^a   Jankowiak, R ^a   Picorel, R ^b   Cogdell, R J ^c   Small, G J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

hole burning; homogeneous broadening; inhomogeneous broadening; Rhodobacter sphaeroides; Rhodopseudomonas acidophila

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLASTOCHLORIS VIRIDIS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOBLASTUS ACIDOPHILUS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0029861193     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00041019     Document Type: Article

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