Time line of discoveries: Anoxygenic bacterial photosynthesis

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 80, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 59-70

  Gest, Howard ^a   Blankenship, Robert E ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria; green bacteria; heliobacteria; history of photosynthesis; purple bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 3042761125     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:PRES.0000030448.24695.ec     Document Type: Conference Paper

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