Evolution of photosynthesis

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2011, Pages 515-548

  Hohmann Marriott, Martin F ^a   Blankenship, Robert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

chemiosmosis; chlorophyll; electron transport; endosymbiosis; oxygen; reaction center

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; SENSORY RHODOPSIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EVOLUTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SUNLIGHT; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; QUINONES; SENSORY RHODOPSINS; SUNLIGHT; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 79955619796     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042110-103811     Document Type: Article

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