Limitations on microalgal growth at very low photon fluence rates: The role of energy slippage

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 299-310

  Quigg, Antonietta ^a,c   Kevekordes, Karen ^a   Raven, John A ^b   Beardall, John ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ATP; Dunaliella tertiolecta; Fluorescence; Growth; Oxygen evolving complex; Phaeodactylum tricornutum; Photoacclimation; Photolithotrophs; Photosynthesis; Proton leakage; Slippage

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ALGA; ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; EUKARYOTE; FLUORESCENCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KINETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHOTON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ALGAE; ENERGY TRANSFER; EUKARYOTA; FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; LIGHT; OXYGEN; PHOTONS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

DUNALIELLA TERTIOLECTA; PHAEODACTYLUM TRICORNUTUM;

EID: 33747878794     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-006-9052-1     Document Type: Article

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