Fluorescence lifetime, yield, energy transfer and spectrum in photosynthesis, 1950-1960

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 73, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 127-132

  Brody, Seymour Steven ^a,b  

^a New York and Carlsberg Laboratory   (Denmark)

^b NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll dimers; Energy transfer; Eugene Rabinowitch; F720; Fluorescence lifetime; George Porter; Intermolecular energy transfer in vivo; Low temperature fluorescence spectra; Red algae; Steve Brody

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 0036409480     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020405921105     Document Type: Short Survey

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