Photosynthesis without β-carotene

Photosynthesis without β-carotene

Carotenoids are essential in oxygenic photosynthesis: they stabilize the pigment–protein complexes, are active in harvesting sunlight and in photoprotection. In plants, they are present as carotenes and their oxygenated derivatives, xanthophylls. While mutant plants lacking xanthophylls are capable...

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Main Authors: Pengqi Xu, Volha U Chukhutsina, Wojciech J Nawrocki, Gert Schansker, Ludwik W Bielczynski, Yinghong Lu, Daniel Karcher, Ralph Bock, Roberta Croce
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2020-09-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
caroteonoid
photosynthesis
photosystems
light harvesting
N.tabacum
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/58984

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https://elifesciences.org/articles/58984

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