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Iron deficiency interrupts energy transfer from a disconnected part of the antenna to the rest of Photosystem II

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Iron deficiency changed markedly the shape of the leaf chlorophyll fluorescence induction kinetics during a dark-light transition, the so-called Kautsky effect. Changes in chlorophyll fluorescence lifetime and yield were observed, increasing largely the minimal and the intermediate chlorophyll fluorescence levels, with a marked dip between the intermediate and the maximum levels and loss of the secondary peak after the maximum. During the slow changes, the lifetime-yield relationship was found to be linear and curvilinear (towards positive lifetime values) in control and Fe-deficient leaves, respectively. These results suggested that part of the Photosystem II antenna in Fe-deficient leaves emits fluorescence with a long lifetime. In dark-adapted Fe-deficient leaves, measurements in the picosecond-nanosecond time domain confirmed the presence of a 3.3-ns component, contributing to 15% of the total fluorescence. Computer simulations revealed that upon illumination such contribution is also present and remains constant, indicating that energy transfer is partially interrupted in Fe-deficient leaves. Photosystem II-enriched membrane fractions containing different pigment-protein complexes were isolated from control and Fe-deficient leaves and characterized spectrophotometrically. The photosynthetic pigment composition of the fractions was also determined. Data revealed the presence of a novel pigment-protein complex induced by Fe deficiency and an enrichment of internal relative to peripheral antenna complexes. The data suggest a partial disconnection between internal Photosystem II antenna complexes and the reaction center, which could lead to an underestimation of the Photosystem II efficiency in dark-adapted, low chlorophyll Fe-deficient leaves, using chlorophyll fluorescence.

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    Fermín Morales, Rebeca Quílez, Anunciación Abadía & Javier Abadía

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Morales, F., Moise, N., Quílez, R. et al. Iron deficiency interrupts energy transfer from a disconnected part of the antenna to the rest of Photosystem II. Photosynthesis Research 70, 207–220 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017965229788

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