Progress towards structural elucidation of photosystem II

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 93-101

  Tsiotis, Georgios ^a   McDermott, Gerry ^b   Ghanotakis, Demetrios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

electron crystallography; electron microscopy; Photosystem II; structure; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030426392     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00014881     Document Type: Short Survey

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