Photosynthetic electron transport in an anoxygenic photosynthetic bacterium afifella (rhodopseudomonas) marina measured using PAM fluorometry

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 370-383

  Ritchie, Raymond J ^a   Runcie, John W ^b,c  

^a PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b Aquation Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL A; DIVALENT CATION; HYDROGEN SULFITE; IRON; SULFITE; THIOSULFATE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROMETRY; LIGHT; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL A; CATIONS, DIVALENT; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROMETRY; IRON; LIGHT; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; SULFITES; THIOSULFATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 84874678903     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: 17511097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2012.01241.x     Document Type: Article

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