Low-temperature energy transfer in FMO trimers from the green photosynthetic bacterium Chlorobium tepidum

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 271-276

  Savikhin, Sergei ^a   Struve, Walter S ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

antenna; electronic energy transfer; green photosynthetic bacteria; pump probe spectroscopy; ultrafast laser spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBACULUM TEPIDUM; CHLOROBIUM; CHLOROBIUM TEPIDUM; PHOTOBACTERIA;

EID: 0029861563     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00041018     Document Type: Article

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