A leap in quantum efficiency through light harvesting in photoreceptor UVR8

Photoreceptor UVR8 in plants senses environmental UV levels through 26 structural tryptophan residues, but the role of 18 of them was unknown. The authors show, by experiments and computations, how these form a light-harvesting network that funnels the excitation to the pyramid centers enhancing the...

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Main Authors: Xiankun Li, Haisheng Ren, Mainak Kundu, Zheyun Liu, Frank W. Zhong, Lijuan Wang, Jiali Gao, Dongping Zhong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17838-6