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Pavel Siffel (1954–2003) or Life full of chlorophyll

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Life and research results of Pavel Siffel, a talented but untimely deceased Czech scientist in photosynthesis, are reviewed. He studied biophysics and physiology of chlorophyll, its complexes with proteins, their absorption and fluorescence spectra, activities in mutants and transformants, dealt with chlorophyll biosynthesis and protochlorophyllide photoreduction, pigments in plants grown at CO2 deficiency and under simulated acid rain, with changes accompanying leaf and plant development, photobleaching, etc. He participated in construction of specialised spectrofluorometers, finally he built the kinetic spectrophotometer SpeKin.

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  1. Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, Branisovska 31, CZ-370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

    J. Kveton & J. Santrucek

  2. Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branisovska 31, CZ-370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

    M. Durchan, K. Rohacek, J. Santrucek & F. Vacha

  3. Institute of Physical Biology, University of South Bohemia, Zamek 136, CZ-373 33, Nove Hrady, Czech Republic

    M. Durchan, K. Rohacek & F. Vacha

  4. Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Karlovce 1a, CZ-160 00, Praha 6, Czech Republic

    Z. Sestak

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Kveton, J., Durchan, M., Rohacek, K. et al. Pavel Siffel (1954–2003) or Life full of chlorophyll. Photosynthetica 43, 323–328 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11099-005-0055-5

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