A routine method to determine the chlorophyll a, pheophytin a and β-carotene contents of isolated Photosystem II reaction center complexes

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-73

  Eijckelhoff, Camiel ^a   Dekker, Jan P ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll; Pheophytin; Photosystem 11; Reaction center

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030808379     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005834006985     Document Type: Article

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