Dynamic non‐photochemical quenching in plants: from molecular mechanism to productivity

EH Murchie, AV Ruban - The Plant Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Photoprotection refers to a set of well defined plant processes that help to prevent the
deleterious effects of high and excess light on plant cells, especially within the chloroplast …

The mechanism of non-photochemical quenching in plants: localization and driving forces

AV Ruban, S Wilson - Plant and Cell Physiology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Non-photochemical chlorophyll fluorescence quenching (NPQ) remains one of the most
studied topics of the 21st century in photosynthesis research. Over the past 30 years …

Disentangling the sites of non-photochemical quenching in vascular plants

L Nicol, WJ Nawrocki, R Croce - Nature Plants, 2019 - nature.com
In nature, plants experience large fluctuations in light intensity and they need to balance the
absorption and utilization of this energy appropriately. Non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) …

Metabolomic response of microalgae towards diclofenac sodium during its removal from water and concomitant recovery of pigments and lipids

J Sharma, I Mariam, MS Kareya, PP Jutur, M Joshi… - Bioresource …, 2023 - Elsevier
The aim of this work was to assess the efficiency of freshwater green microalga, Chlorella
sorokiniana for diclofenac sodium (DFS) removal, and metabolic response of alga to …

Design principles for energy transfer in the photosystem II supercomplex from kinetic transition networks

SJ Yang, DJ Wales, EJ Woods, GR Fleming - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Photosystem II (PSII) has the unique ability to perform water-splitting. With light-harvesting
complexes, it forms the PSII supercomplex (PSII-SC) which is a functional unit that can …

Ultrafast dynamics of photosynthetic light harvesting: Strategies for acclimation across organisms

OC Fiebig, D Harris, D Wang… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Photosynthetic light harvesting exhibits near-unity quantum efficiency. The high efficiency is
achieved through a series of energy and charge transfer steps within a network of pigment …

Light harvesting control in plants

AV Ruban - FEBS letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In 1991, my colleagues and I published a hypothesis article that proposed a mechanism that
controls light harvesting in plants and protects them against photodamage. The major light …

[HTML][HTML] The relevance of dynamic thylakoid organisation to photosynthetic regulation

MP Johnson, E Wientjes - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2020 - Elsevier
The higher plant chloroplast thylakoid membrane system performs the light-dependent
reactions of photosynthesis. These provide the ATP and NADPH required for the fixation of …

Single-walled carbon nanotubes modify leaf micromorphology, chloroplast ultrastructure and photosynthetic activity of pea plants

V Velikova, N Petrova, L Kovács, A Petrova… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) emerge as promising novel carbon-based
nanoparticles for use in biomedicine, pharmacology and precision agriculture. They were …

Complex Roles of PsbS and Xanthophylls in the Regulation of Nonphotochemical Quenching in Arabidopsis thaliana under Fluctuating Light

CJ Steen, JM Morris, AH Short, KK Niyogi… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Protection of photosystem II against damage from excess light by nonphotochemical
quenching (NPQ) includes responses on a wide range of timescales. The onset of the …