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The low chlorophyll b mutant of high yield rice had a lower light-harvesting complex 2 content than the wild type. The stability of oxygen evolution side of photosystem 2 was only slightly lower. A lower photon absorption rate and a stronger xanthophyll cycle capacity of this mutant led to a higher endurance to strong irradiance and a lower photoinhibition as compared with the wild type rice.
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Dai, X., Xu, X., Lu, W. et al. Photoinhibition Characteristics of a Low Chlorophyll b Mutant of High Yield Rice. Photosynthetica 41, 57–60 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025804327776
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