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Cyanobacteria emit chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence whose intensity depends on the light history of cells: it is weaker in dark-acclimated cells and stronger in light-acclimated cells. These light/dark-induced fluorescence intensity shifts are not caused by the oxidation or reduction of QA, the primary plastoquinone electron acceptor of photo-system (PS) II, since they occur also in the presence of the electron transport inhibitor 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1’-dimethylurea (DCMU) which blocks the oxidation of Q -A . The phenomenon was reported originally for cyanobacteria [1], red algae [2], green algae [3], and higher plants [4]. Murata [2] and Bonaventura and Myers [3] named the state of dark acclimation light state 2 and the state of light acclimation light state 1.
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Stamatakis, K., Papageorgiou, G.C. (1999). Phycobilisome-To-Photosystem I Excitation Transfer is Enhanced in Water-Depleted Cells and Depressed in Water-Replete Cells of Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC7942. In: Argyroudi-Akoyunoglou, J.H., Senger, H. (eds) The Chloroplast: From Molecular Biology to Biotechnology. NATO Science Series, vol 64. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4788-0_7
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