Differential changes in the photosynthetic pigments and polyamine content during photoadaptation and photoinhibition in the unicellular green alga Scenedesmus obliquus

Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section C Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 53, Issue 9-10, 1998, Pages 833-840

  Kotzabasis, Kiriakos ^a   Dörnemann, Dieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Photoadaptation; Photoinhibition; Photosynthetic Apparatus; Polyamines; Scenedesmus obliquus

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; CHLOROPHYLL; LIGHT INTENSITY; LOROXANTHIN; PHOTOADAPTATION; PHOTOINHIBITION; PIGMENT; POLYAMINE; PUTRESCINE; VIOLAXANTHIN; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; SCENEDESMUS; SCENEDESMUS OBLIQUUS;

EID: 0031789554     PISSN: 09395075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/znc-1998-9-1009     Document Type: Article

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