Antenna organization in the purple sulfur bacteria Chromatium tepidum and Chromatium vinosum

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 237-244

  Kramer, Hans ^a   Amesz, Jan ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

domain size; fluorescence (C. tepidum, C. vinosum); light harvesting; singlet singlet annihilation

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHROMATIUM VINOSUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMATIACEAE; CHROMATIUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; THERMOCHROMATIUM TEPIDUM;

EID: 0030465643     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00034784     Document Type: Article

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