Plastoquinone redox control of chloroplast thylakoid protein phosphorylation and distribution of excitation energy between photosystems: Discovery, background, implications

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 73, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 139-148

  Allen, John F ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alison Telfer; Charles J. Arntzen; Enhancement; John Bennett; John F. Allen; Katherine E. Steinback; Light harvesting complex II; Peter Horton; Photosystem; Plastoquinone; Protein phosphorylation; Redox control; Robert Emerson; State transitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036410160     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020414106993     Document Type: Short Survey

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