Engineering photosynthetic light capture: Impacts on improved solar energy to biomass conversion

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 802-814

  Mussgnug, Jan H ^a,b   Thomas Hall, Skye ^a   Rupprecht, Jens ^a   Foo, Alexander ^a   Klassen, Viktor ^b   McDowall, Alasdair ^a   Schenk, Peer M ^a   Kruse, Olaf ^b   Hankamer, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomass; Light harvesting; Photoinhibition; Photosynthesis; RNAi; Solar energy conversion

Indexed keywords

ALGAL PROTEIN; CHLOROPHYLL; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DOWN REGULATION; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; LIGHT; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; THYLAKOID; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGAL PROTEINS; ANIMALS; BIOMASS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYLL; DOWN-REGULATION; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIGHT; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; THYLAKOIDS;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 35148820055     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2007.00285.x     Document Type: Article

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