A photoprotective role for O2 as an alternative electron sink in photosynthesis?

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 193-198

  Ort, Donald R ^a   Baker, Neil R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBATE PEROXIDASE; DEHYDROASCORBIC ACID; DRUG DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN; PEROXIDASE; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SEMIDEHYDROASCORBIC ACID; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; WATER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CHLOROPLAST; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CHLOROPLASTS; DEHYDROASCORBIC ACID; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PEROXIDASES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; WATER;

EID: 0036011077     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5266(02)00259-5     Document Type: Review

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