What is β-carotene doing in the photosystem II reaction centre?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1426, 2002, Pages 1431-1440

  Telfer, Alison ^a   Brudvig, G W ^a   Moore, T A ^a   Styring, S ^a   Rutherford, A W ^a   Fromme, P ^a   Aro, E M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Photoinhibition; Photosystem II; Singlet oxygen; Triplet state; carotene

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 0037195307     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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