ReviewThe Plant cell2025
Nonphotochemical quenching in plants: Mechanisms and mysteries.
Review in The Plant cell, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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- Pseudomonas chlororaphis IRHB3 suppresses Soybean mosaic virus by coordinating photosynthetic protection, ROS homeostasis and hormone-mediated immunity.Pest management science · 2026Article
- Molecular dissection of the Cereibacter sphaeroides spheroidene monooxygenase.The Biochemical journal · 2026Article
- Phenotypic Plasticity of Photochemical Traits and Antioxidant Responsiveness Confer Photosynthetic Resilience in Peanut (Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Harnessing natural variation for photosynthetic improvement in next-generation crop breeding.Journal of integrative plant biology · 2026Review
- The state of plant photosystem II reaction centres affects the rate of non-photochemical quenching.Nature plants · 2026Article
- Singlet Oxygen in Plants: Mechanistic Insights into Production, Oxidative Damage, and Stress-Response Signaling.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Probing the influence of PsbS on thylakoid lipid fluidity.Photosynthesis research · 2026Article
- pH-Dependent Vibrational Dynamics Drives Excited-State Quenching in the Phycobiliprotein Complex PC645.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- The structural chemistry and biosynthesis of chlorophylls.RSC chemical biology · 2026Review
- Energy quenching via triplet-excited state formation of glycosylated carotenoids in the photosynthetic reaction center complex of the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum.Photosynthesis research · 2026Article
- Regulatory plasticity balances photosynthetic electron flow with enhanced pH-dependent cytochrome b6f control in Arabidopsis.Plant physiology · 2026Article
- The quantitative contribution of different Photosystem II compartments to non-photochemical quenching in Arabidopsis.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Functional divergence of LhcSR and PsbS in zeaxanthin-mediated non-photochemical quenching.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Pigment-Structure Leaf Syndromes in Poinsettia (ACS omega · 2026Article
- Contrasting PSII Photochemistry and Energy Partitioning Between Spikes and Leaves During Grain Anthocyanin Accumulation in Hulless Barley on the Tibetan Plateau.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- CP26 is not involved in qE- or qZ-type non-photochemical quenching in Arabidopsis.Plant physiology · 2026Article
- Quantifying the Acidification-Induced Shift of the Dimerization Equilibrium of PsbS.The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2026Article
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- Genotype-Specific Photosynthetic Plasticity and Leaf Yield ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Lipocalin-mediated hydrophobic mismatch as a mechanism for sustained nonphotochemical quenching.Plant physiology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Plants are vulnerable to photodamage when exposed to light intensities that exceed their photosynthetic capacity. To protect themselves, they activate nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ), a set of processes that dissipate excess excitation energy as heat. NPQ has been studied extensively; however, the field remains conceptually fragmented, and consensus on the underlying mechanisms has yet to be reached. Interest in NPQ has recently intensified due to studies showing that tuning NPQ regulation can lead to substantial improvements in photosynthetic efficiency and even crop yield increases of up to 30%. In this review, we aim to bring structure to the diverse and sometimes contradictory NPQ literature by framing the discussion around a set of key mechanistic questions. We focus on the fastest component of NPQ, known as qE, which is activated within the first minutes of excess light exposure. Topics addressed include the molecular properties and roles of PsbS and zeaxanthin, potential conformational changes in light-harvesting complexes, reorganization of the thylakoid membrane, and the interplay among these factors. We synthesize the available evidence into a working model in which qE arises largely from a localized conformational switch in a small number of antenna complexes, triggered by PsbS, whereas zeaxanthin increases the domain size of the antenna that can be quenched by each of these quenchers.
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