Final technical report: Molecular, genetic and physiological analysis of photoinhibition and photosynthetic performance

Technical Report · Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2002

OSTI ID:807705

Boynton, John E; Gillham, Nicholas W

Photoinhibition results in a reduction in photosynthetic efficiency, and occurs when plants receive too high a light intensity. The research supported by this grant has focused in recent years on the characterization of mutants of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii resistant to photoinhibitory light intensities in an effort to identify the photosynthetic (or other) cellular components important in photoinhibition. The results obtained thus far with four nuclear mutants resistant to very high light suggest that the products of genes involved in controlling chlorophyll antenna components and photosynthetic stoichiometries are important in the photoinhibitory process.

• Research Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: FG05-89ER14005
• OSTI ID: 807705
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 1 Jun 2002
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
ANTENNAS
CHLAMYDOMONAS
CHLOROPHYLL
EFFICIENCY
GENES
GENETICS
MUTANTS
PERFORMANCE
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
INHIBITION
REACTION KINETICS