Detectability of life and photosynthesis on exoplanets

Current Science

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1171-1175

  Bjorn L O ^a   Papageorgiou, G C ^b   Dravins, D ^c   Govindjee, ^d  

^a Department of Cell and Organism Biology ^*  (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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

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