Excess Light Stress: Multiple Dissipative Processes of Excess Excitation

  • Bruce D
  • Vasil’ev S
N/ACitations
Citations of this article
15Readers
Mendeley users who have this article in their library.
Get full text

Abstract

Photosynthetic organisms in natural environments are challenged by exposure to changing light intensities and stress conditions. The balance point between efficient light harvesting and potential photodamage is fine and dependent upon changing environmental conditions and metabolic demands. Plants appear to have developed numerous mechanisms that allow them tofinetune the absorption of light energy, its distribution between the photosystems, and the amount safely dissipated as heat. Much of the research into mechanisms controlling the use of absorbed excitation energy by photosynthetic organisms depends on the measurement and analysis of chlorophyll a (Chi a) fluorescence. The emission of variable Chi a fluorescence is dependent on excited state processes and photochemical activities of Photosystem II (PS II) and is thus a potentially powerful probe in studies of the regulation of PS II activity. Quenching of fluorescence is associated with down regulation of PS II, and the analysis of fluorescence quenching is often used to elucidate details of the mechanisms responsible. There are however, a number of different techniques for the measurement, quantification and analysis of fluorescence emission whose strengths and weaknesses must be considered before they can be effectively applied to studies of the down regulation of PS II. In this chapter, we briefly discuss a few popular fluorescence measuring techniques and models for the origin of fluorescence from PS II in the context of fluorescence quenching analysis. We then look at proposed molecular mechanisms for a number offluorescencequenching processes. We focus on a few relatively short-term reversible quenching mechanisms responsible for energy dissipation and/or regulation of the distribution of excitation energy between PS II and PS I. These include high energy or ApH quenching (qE) and state transition mechanisms in plants, algae and cyanobacteria. A variety of molecular mechanisms for fluorescence quenching associated with qE and state transitions are compared and discussed with respect to howfluorescenceis measured and analyzed.

Cite

CITATION STYLE

APA

Bruce, D., & Vasil’ev, S. (2007). Excess Light Stress: Multiple Dissipative Processes of Excess Excitation. In Chlorophyll a Fluorescence (pp. 497–523). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3218-9_19

Register to see more suggestions

Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.

Already have an account?

Save time finding and organizing research with Mendeley

Sign up for free