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    Drought-Induced Ultra-Fast Fluorescence Quenching in Photosystem II in Lichens Revealed by Picosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectrophotometry

    Lichens survive under the extreme drought environments. It has been suggested that dried lichens convert excess light energy into heat by unknown mechanism to prevent the accumulation of harmful photoproducts....

    Masayuki Komura, Ikuko Iwasaki, Shigeru Itoh in Photosynthesis. Energy from the Sun (2008)

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    Historical perspective on microalgal and cyanobacterial acclimation to low- and extremely high-CO2 conditions

    Reports in the 1970s from several laboratories revealed that the affinity of photosynthetic machinery for dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) was greatly increased when unicellular green microalgae were transferr...

    Shigetoh Miyachi, Ikuko Iwasaki, Yoshihiro Shiraiwa in Photosynthesis Research (2003)

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    New Types of Reaction Centers Using Chlorophyll d and Zn-Bacteriochlorophyll a

    Two new types of reaction center (RC) complexes were isolated. The first is the PS I type RC purified from a cyanobacteria-like prokaryote Acatyochloris marina (1) that contains an atypical pigment chlorophyll d ...

    Shigeru Itoh, Masayo Iwaki, Qiang Hu in Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects (1998)