Acclimation of leaves to low light produces large grana: The origin of the predominant attractive force at work

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1608, 2012, Pages 3494-3502

  Jia, Husen ^a,b   Liggins, John R ^a   Chow, Wah Soon ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Depletion attraction; Electrostatic repulsion; Entropy; Grana; LHCII; Van der Waals attraction

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; IRRADIANCE; LEAF; LIGHT EFFECT; PHOTOPROTECTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 84869210368     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0071     Document Type: Article

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