Isoprenoids represent the oldest class of known low molecular-mass natural products
synthesized by plants. Their biogenesis in plastids, mitochondria and the endoplasmic …

Cyanobacteria are key organisms in the global ecosystem, useful models for studying
metabolic and physiological processes conserved in photosynthetic organisms, and …

The second edition of this best-selling handbook is bigger, more comprehensive, and now
completely current. In addition to thorough updates to the discussions featured in the first …

Vitamin K is a collective term for lipid-like naphthoquinone derivatives synthesized only in
eubacteria and plants and functioning as electron carriers in energy transduction pathways …

Phylloquinone is a compound present in all photosynthetic plants serving as cofactor for
Photosystem I-mediated electron transport. Newly identified seedling-lethal Arabidopsis …

Vitamin K 1 has recently been identified as a potentially important nutrient for prevention of
chronic diseases, especially those associated with aging, like osteoporosis and …

This review focuses on phylloquinone as an indispensable link between light-induced
charge separation and subsequent charge stabilization in Photosystem I (PS I). Here, the …

Current retail marketing conditions allow produce to receive artificial light 24 h per day
during its displayed shelf life. Essential human-health vitamins [ascorbic acid (vit C), folate …

Phylloquinone (vitamin K 1) is synthesized in cyanobacteria and in chloroplasts of plants,
where it serves as electron carrier of photosystem I. The last step of phylloquinone synthesis …

Summary Phylloquinone, a substituted 1, 4‐naphthoquinone with an 18‐carbon‐saturated
phytyl tail, functions as a bound one‐electron carrier cofactor at the A1 site of photosystem I …