Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: Non-photochemical quenching mutants and the effect of photosynthetic inhibitors on the slow chlorophyll fluorescence transient

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 90-120

  Holub, O ^a,c   Seufferheld, M J ^b   Gohlke, C ^a,c   Govindjee, ^b   Heiss, G J ^a,d   Clegg, R M ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^d Inst für Physikalische Chemie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; FLI; FLIM; Fluorescence induction; Lifetime microscopy; Lifetime of fluorescence; Lifetime transient; Non photochemical quenching; npq1 mutant; npq2 mutant; Polar plot; Xanthophyll cycle

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); QUENCHING; UREA;

CHLAMYDOMONAS; FLI; FLIM; FLUORESCENCE INDUCTION; LIFETIME MICROSCOPY; LIFETIME OF FLUORESCENCE; LIFETIME TRANSIENT; NON-PHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; NPQ1 MUTANT; NPQ2 MUTANT; POLAR PLOT; XANTHOPHYLL CYCLE;

CELLS;

DIURON; NIGERICIN; VIOLOGEN; ZEAXANTHIN;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GREEN ALGA; ILLUMINATION; LIFESPAN; MODULATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REST; WILD TYPE;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII;

EID: 34247180635     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2007.01763.x     Document Type: Article

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