The relationship of intercompartmental excitation transfer rate constants to those of an underlying physical model

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 117-131

  Holcomb, Christopher T ^a   Knox, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

compartment theory; electronic excitation transport; photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030438263     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00014883     Document Type: Article

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