The divinyl-chlorophyll a/b-protein complexes of two strains of the oxyphototrophic marine prokaryote Prochlorococcus - Characterization and response to changes in growth irradiance

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 209-222

  Partensky, Frédéric ^a   La Roche, Julie ^b   Wyman, Kevin ^b   Falkowski, Paul G ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Iron stress proteins; Light harvesting complexes; Photosynthetic antennae; Photosystems; Prochlorophyte

Indexed keywords

PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

EID: 8544229062     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005807408161     Document Type: Article

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