Inactivation of photosynthetic electron flow during desiccation of desert biological sand crusts and Microcoleus sp.-enriched isolates

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 977-982

  Ohad, Itzhak ^a   Nevo, Reinat ^a   Brumfeld, Vlad ^a   Reich, Ziv ^a   Tsur, Tom ^b   Yair, Michael ^b   Kaplan, Aaron ^a,b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESICCATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCOLEUS; MICROCOLEUS SP.;

EID: 29144453420     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b506300k     Document Type: Article

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