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CURRENT mechanistic models of energy transduction in photosynthesis, envision that the energy of the photons collected by the bulk antenna chlorophyll, is funnelled to special sites called reaction centres, where the primary charge separation events occur1. If the primary oxidant and reductant are separated physically by only a few, or few tens of angstroms, changes in the dielectric properties should become evident2. Several laboratories have soughtsuch evidence with equivocal results3–6, although one group, using methods similar to ours, has reported qualitative, positive results7.
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BOGOMOLNI, R., KLEIN, M. Mobile charge carriers in photosynthesis. Nature 258, 88–89 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/258088a0
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