Reabsorption of chlorophyll fluorescence and its effects on the spectral distribution and the picosecond decay of higher plant leaves

Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section C Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 53, Issue 9-10, 1998, Pages 924-926

  Terjung, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluorescence Lifetimes; Photosystem II; Reabsorption of Fluorescence

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE; CHLOROPLAST;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0031763045     PISSN: 09395075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/znc-1998-9-1024     Document Type: Article

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