Photosynthesis: basics, history and modelling

A Stirbet, D Lazár, Y Guo, G Govindjee - Annals of botany, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background With limited agricultural land and increasing human population, it is essential to
enhance overall photosynthesis and thus productivity. Oxygenic photosynthesis begins with …

Wetting-regulated gas-involving (photo) electrocatalysis: biomimetics in energy conversion

G Liu, WSY Wong, M Kraft, JW Ager… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
(Photo) electrolysis of water or gases with water to species serving as industrial feedstocks
and energy carriers, such as hydrogen, ammonia, ethylene, propanol, etc., has drawn …

Glutathione metabolism in plants under stress: beyond reactive oxygen species detoxification

S Dorion, JC Ouellet, J Rivoal - Metabolites, 2021 - mdpi.com
Glutathione is an essential metabolite for plant life best known for its role in the control of
reactive oxygen species (ROS). Glutathione is also involved in the detoxification of …

Semi-biological approaches to solar-to-chemical conversion

X Fang, S Kalathil, E Reisner - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
This review presents a comprehensive summary of the recent development in semi-artificial
photosynthesis, a biological-material hybrid approach to solar-to-chemical conversion that …

High-resolution cryo-electron microscopy structure of photosystem II from the mesophilic cyanobacterium, Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

CJ Gisriel, J Wang, J Liu, DA Flesher… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Photosystem II (PSII) enables global-scale, light-driven water oxidation. Genetic
manipulation of PSII from the mesophilic cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 has …

Alternative Mechanism for O2 Formation in Natural Photosynthesis via Nucleophilic Oxo–Oxo Coupling

Y Guo, J Messinger, L Kloo, L Sun - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
O2 formation in photosystem II (PSII) is a vital event on Earth, but the exact mechanism
remains unclear. The presently prevailing theoretical model is “radical coupling”(RC) …

Advancing photosystem II photoelectrochemistry for semi-artificial photosynthesis

JZ Zhang, E Reisner - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Oxygenic photosynthesis is the primary solar energy-conversion process that supports much
of life on Earth. It is initiated by photosystem II (PSII), an enzyme that extracts electrons from …

[HTML][HTML] Cadmium toxicity in Salvia sclarea L.: An integrative response of element uptake, oxidative stress markers, leaf structure and photosynthesis

AG Dobrikova, EL Apostolova, A Hanć… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The herbal plant Salvia sclarea L.(clary sage) is classified to cadmium (Cd) accumulators
and considered as a potential plant for phytoremediation of heavy metal polluted soil …

Current understanding of the mechanism of water oxidation in photosystem II and its relation to XFEL data

N Cox, DA Pantazis, W Lubitz - Annual review of biochemistry, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The investigation of water oxidation in photosynthesis has remained a central topic in
biochemical research for the last few decades due to the importance of this catalytic process …

The biochemical properties of manganese in plants

SB Schmidt, S Husted - Plants, 2019 - mdpi.com
Manganese (Mn) is an essential micronutrient with many functional roles in plant
metabolism. Manganese acts as an activator and co-factor of hundreds of metalloenzymes …