Renger G. (Ed.) Primary Processes of Photosynthesis. Part 2: Principles and Apparatus

The Royal Society of Chemistry, European Society for Photobiology, UK, 2008. — 593 p. — (Comprehensive Series in Photochemistry and Photobiology No. 09) — ISBN: 978-0-85404-236-4.The interaction of living matter with electromagnetic radiation in the nearultraviolet (NUV), visible (Vis) and near-infrared (NIR) regions is a most important topic in life sciences. The radiation from a huge extraterrestrial fusion reactor, the sun, not only provides the unique Gibbs energy for the development and sustenance of almost all forms of life on our planet but also plays a key role in several regulatory functions such as synchronizing biological clocks and information transfer processes (e.g., vision, photomorphogenesis, phototaxis, communication via bioluminescence signals).
Contents Part 1: Photophysical Principles, Pigments and Light Harvesting/Adaptation/StressOverview of Primary Processes of Photosynthesis
Basic Photophysical Principles
Absorption of Light, Excitation Energy Transfer and Electron Transfer Reactions
Pigments
Chlorophylls
Photophysical Properties and Light-Harvesting and Photoprotective Functions of Carotenoids in Bacterial Photosynthesis: Structural Selections
Structure and Function of Antenna Systems
The Light-Harvesting System of Purple Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria
Oxygen-Evolving Cyanobacteria
Antenna System of Higher Plants’ Photosystem I and Its Interaction with the Core Complex
Structure and Function of Photosystem II Light-Harvesting Proteins (Lhcb) of Higher Plants
Regulatory Control of Antenna Function in Plants
Photoinhibition of Photosynthetic Electron Transport
Contents Part 2: Reaction Centers/Photosystems, Electron Transport Chains, Photophosphorylation and Evolution
Structure and Function of Reaction Centers and Photosystems
Structures of Reaction Centers in Anoxygenic Bacteria
Functional Pattern of Reaction Centers in Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria
Structure and Function of Photosystem I
Functional Pattern of Photosystem I in Oxygen Evolving Organisms
From Cell Growth to the 3.0 A ˚ Resolution Crystal Structure of Cyanobacterial Photosystem II
Functional Pattern of Photosystem
Photosynthetic Water Splitting
Electron Transport Chains and Phosphorylation
Anoxygenic Bacteria
Electron Transport Chains in Oxygenic Cyanobacteria
Structure–Function of the Cytochrome b6 f Complex: A Design that has Worked for Three Billion Years
Photophosphorylation
Evolution
The Evolution of Photosynthesis