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The concentration of Cytochrome f and P700 in chlorophyll-deficient mutants of Chlorella fusca

K. H. FuldnerAloysius Wild

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Cytochrome fPhotosynthetic reaction centreP700biologyLight-harvesting complexes of green plantsPlant Sciencebiology.organism_classificationPhotosystem IPhotosynthesisChlorellachemistry.chemical_compoundBiochemistrychemistryChlorophyllGenetics

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The ratio of Chlorophyll: Cytochrome f and of Chlorophyll: P700 (reaction center pigment in photosystem I) is essentially lower in chlorophyll-deficient mutants than in the normal green strain. On a dry weight basis, the mutants have the same or a higher content of redox enzymes than the normal form. The size of the photosynthetic unit of the mutants is 4 to 7 times smaller than that of the normal strains, due mainly to a deficiency of the light-harvesting chlorophyll-protein complex.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
1977-04-29Planta
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00385997