Seeing how plants split water could provide key to our future energy needs
...eria and algae and involves two protein complexes, photosystem I, and photosystem II - which contains the water-splitting centre. While previous models of PSII function have sketched...The role of phytochromes in bacteria revealed
...s an essential role as regulator of the bacteriums photosystem synthesis. An identical function was shown in the ... These experiments therefore demonstrated that the photosystem of Bradyrhizobium is totally under the control of the bacteriophytochrome. This is the first time th...Scientists unravel ancient evolutionary history of photosynthesis
...hich species of bacteria contains the most ancient photosystem and how photosynthesis in green plants evolved from photosynthesis in bacteria. By generating a large new molecular data set, Bauer's group, which includes IU postdoctoral fellow Jin Xiong and IU doctoral student William Fischer, has determined that......sis to discover that there was severedamage to the photosystem II [PSII] in the symbiotic algae," said Schmidt.PS...n energy created by light in PSII is thenpassed to photosystem I, where much of the actual energy storage takesplace -- a kind of two-stage electron escalator. "Bu...