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Molecular Mechanism of Asymmetric Electron Transfer on the Electron Donor Side of Photosystem II

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Noguchi, T. (2021). Molecular Mechanism of Asymmetric Electron Transfer on the Electron Donor Side of Photosystem II. In: Shen, JR., Satoh, K., Allakhverdiev, S.I. (eds) Photosynthesis: Molecular Approaches to Solar Energy Conversion. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, vol 47. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67407-6_12

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