Coherently wired light-harvesting in photosynthetic marine algae at ambient temperature

Nature

Volumn 463, Issue 7281, 2010, Pages 644-647

  Collini, Elisabetta ^a,c   Wong, Cathy Y ^a   Wilk, Krystyna E ^b   Curmi, Paul M G ^b   Brumer, Paul ^a   Scholes, Gregory D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENERGY FLOW; GREEN ALGA; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PROTEIN; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ALGA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHROMATOPHORE; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE;

ALGAL PROTEINS; CRYPTOPHYTA; LIGHT; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTONS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE;

ALGAE; CRYPTOPHYTA;

EID: 76249103854     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08811     Document Type: Article

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