Competition between annihilation and trapping leads to strongly reduced yields of photochemistry under ps-flash excitation

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 255-262

  Wulf, Karsten ^a   Trissl, Hans Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

photochemical yield; photosynthesis; Photosystem I; Photosystem II; Rps. viridis; Rs. rubrum

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PISUM SATIVUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 0029910056     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00041016     Document Type: Article

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