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ArticlePhotosynthetica2025

Hans Kautsky's groundbreaking discovery(ies) in 1931, its scientific environment, and the ensuing developments.

U Schreiber, H K Lichtenthaler

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Article in Photosynthetica, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

U SchreiberJulius-von-Sachs Institute of Biosciences, University of Würzburg, D-97082 Würzburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6408-6662
H K LichtenthalerJoseph Kölreuter Institute of Plant Sciences (JKIP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), D-76133 Karlsruhe, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 1931, Hans Kautsky discovered not only chlorophyll (Chl) fluorescence induction ("Kautsky effect") in green leaves but also metastable excited oxygen, now known as singlet oxygen, which he showed to act as an intermediate in dye-sensitized photooxidations of organic substances

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PhotosynthesisChlorophyllFluorescenceHistory, 20th CenturyChlorophyllchlorophyll fluorescence inductionKautsky effectKautsky mechanism of dye-sensitized photooxidationsphotosynthesissinglet oxygentwo photosynthetic light reactionsUlrich Franck

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PMID40270908
PMCPMC12012422

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