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Corrections to current approaches used to calculate energy partitioning in photosystem 2

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Abstract

We analyzed several approaches dealing with the components of non-photochemical energy dissipation and introduced improved versions of the equations used to calculate this parameter. The usage of these formulae depends on the conditions of the sample (acclimation to dark or irradiation, presence or absence of the “actinic light”). The parameter known as “excess” cannot be used as a component of energy partitioning. In reality, this parameter reflects the differences between potential and actual quantum yields of photochemistry.

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Abbreviations

Chl:

chlorophyll

PS:

photosystem

WT:

wild type

Φf,CON :

combined quantum efficiency (yield) of fluorescence and constitutive thermal dissipation

ΦNF :

quantum yield of thermal dissipation associated with the presence of non-functional PS2

ΦP :

actual quantum yield of photochemistry (electron transport) in PS2

ΦPS2 :

potential quantum yield of photochemistry in PS2

ΦREG :

quantum yield of dark-reversible non-photochemical quenching of the excitation energy.

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    D. Kornyeyev

  2. Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79409, USA

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Kornyeyev, D., Holaday, A.S. Corrections to current approaches used to calculate energy partitioning in photosystem 2. Photosynthetica 46, 170–178 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11099-008-0028-6

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