ArticleNature plants2020
Far-red absorption and light-use efficiency trade-offs in chlorophyll f photosynthesis.
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- Modified chlorophyll pigment at ChlChemical science · 2025Article
- The Quenching of Long-Wavelength Fluorescence by the Closed Reaction Center in Photosystem I inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Effects of combined application of phosphorus and zinc on growth and physiological characteristics of apple rootstock M9-T337 seedlings (Malus domestica Borkh.).BMC plant biology · 2024Article
- Perspectives on improving photosynthesis to increase crop yield.The Plant cell · 2024Review
- Recent structural discoveries of photosystems I and II acclimated to absorb far-red light.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Bioenergetics · 2024Review
- Far-red light modulates grapevine growth by increasing leaf photosynthesis efficiency and triggering organ-specific transcriptome remodelling : Author.BMC plant biology · 2024Article
- Chlorophyll triplet states in thylakoid membranes of Acaryochloris marina. Evidence for a triplet state sitting on the photosystem I primary donor populated by intersystem crossing.Photosynthesis research · 2024Article
- Coloring Outside the Lines: Exploiting Pigment-Protein Synergy for Far-Red Absorption in Plant Light-Harvesting Complexes.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2024Article
- Computational dissection of genetic variation modulating the response of multiple photosynthetic phenotypes to the light environment.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- Far-red light photoacclimation in a desertFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
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- Identification of a Far-Red Light-Inducible Promoter that Exhibits Light Intensity Dependency and Reversibility in a Cyanobacterium.ACS synthetic biology · 2023Article
- Helical allophycocyanin nanotubes absorb far-red light in a thermophilic cyanobacterium.Science advances · 2023Article
- Structure of a dimeric photosystem II complex from a cyanobacterium acclimated to far-red light.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2023Article
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Abstract
Plants and cyanobacteria use the chlorophylls embedded in their photosystems to absorb photons and perform charge separation, the first step of converting solar energy to chemical energy. While oxygenic photosynthesis is primarily based on chlorophyll a photochemistry, which is powered by red light, a few cyanobacterial species can harness less energetic photons when growing in far-red light. Acclimatization to far-red light involves the incorporation of a small number of molecules of red-shifted chlorophyll f in the photosystems, whereas the most abundant pigment remains chlorophyll a. Due to its different energetics, chlorophyll f is expected to alter the excited-state dynamics of the photosynthetic units and, ultimately, their performances. Here we combined time-resolved fluorescence measurements on intact cells and isolated complexes to show that chlorophyll f insertion slows down the overall energy trapping in both photosystems. While this marginally affects the efficiency of photosystem I, it substantially decreases that of photosystem II. Nevertheless, we show that despite the lower energy output, the insertion of red-shifted chlorophylls in the photosystems remains advantageous in environments that are enriched in far-red light and therefore represents a viable strategy for extending the photosynthetically active spectrum in other organisms, including plants. However, careful design of the new photosynthetic units will be required to preserve their efficiency.
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