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Quantification of Screening Pigments and Their Efficiency In Situ

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Photoprotection in Plants

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This chapter deals with nondestructive quantification of screening pigment content and estimation of the efficiency of screening pigments. The first part of the chapter describes the approaches for the employment of the relationships between changes in screening pigment content and composition and the effects screening pigments exert on reflection of light by plants (considered in detail in the previous chapter) for quantification of screening pigments in situ. The second part considers the current approaches for estimating the efficiency of screening by different pigments in planta.

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Solovchenko, A. (2010). Quantification of Screening Pigments and Their Efficiency In Situ. In: Photoprotection in Plants. Springer Series in Biophysics, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13887-4_6

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