Articles

1. The S₁ to S₂ and S₂ to S₃ state transitions in plant photosystem II: relevance to the functional and structural heterogeneity of the water oxidizing complex

   • Andrea Pavlou
   • Stenbjörn Styring
   • Fikret Mamedov

   Research Open access 25 April 2024

   

2. Role of isotropic lipid phase in the fusion of photosystem II membranes

   • Kinga Böde
   • Uroš Javornik
   • Győző Garab

   Research Open access 25 April 2024

   

3. Intramolecular charge transfer and the function of vibronic excitons in photosynthetic light harvesting

   • Warren F. Beck

   Review 24 April 2024

   

4. The synergy between the PscC subunits for electron transfer to the P₈₄₀ special pair in Chlorobaculum tepidum

   • Alexandros Lyratzakis
   • Vangelis Daskalakis
   • Georgios Tsiotis

   Research Open access 16 April 2024

   

5. Unveiling large charge transfer character of PSII in an iron-deficient cyanobacterial membrane: A Stark fluorescence spectroscopy study

   • Anjue Mane Ara
   • Sandrine D’Haene
   • Md. Wahadoszamen

   Research 15 April 2024

   

6. Stimulated X-ray emission spectroscopy

   • Uwe Bergmann

   Review 15 April 2024

   

7. From leaf to multiscale models of photosynthesis: applications and challenges for crop improvement

   • Alexandrina Stirbet
   • Ya Guo
   • Govindjee Govindjee

   Review 15 April 2024

   

8. Salt and heat stress enhances hydrogen production in cyanobacteria

   • Panayiotis-Ilias Broussos
   • George E. Romanos
   • Kostas Stamatakis

   Research 28 March 2024

   

9. Contrasting packing modes for tubular assemblies in chlorosomes

   • Yuliya A. Miloslavina
   • Brijith Thomas
   • Huub J. M. de Groot

   Research Open access 27 March 2024

   

10. In vitro demetalation of central magnesium in various chlorophyll derivatives using Mg-dechelatase homolog from the chloroflexi Anaerolineae

    • Soma Sato
    • Mitsuaki Hirose
    • Hitoshi Tamiaki

    Research Open access 26 March 2024 Pages: 45 - 53

    

11. On the simulation and interpretation of substrate-water exchange experiments in photosynthetic water oxidation

    • Petko Chernev
    • A. Orkun Aydin
    • Johannes Messinger

    Research Open access 21 March 2024

    

12. Excitation transfer and quenching in photosystem II, enlightened by carotenoid triplet state in leaves

    • Agu Laisk
    • Richard B. Peterson
    • Vello Oja

    Research 19 March 2024 Pages: 31 - 44

    

13. International conference on “Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability-2023”: in honor of Robert Blankenship, Győző Garab, Michael Grätzel, Norman Hüner and Gunnar Öquist

    • Rajagopal Subramanyam
    • Tatsuya Tomo
    • Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev

    Brief Report 19 March 2024

    

14. On the Pelletier and Caventou (1817, 1818) papers on chlorophyll and beyond

    • Govindjee Govindjee
    • Alexandrina Stirbet
    • Hugo Scheer

    History and Biography 15 March 2024 Pages: 55 - 60

    

15. Indirect interactions involving the PsbM or PsbT subunits and the PsbO, PsbU and PsbV proteins stabilize assembly and activity of Photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

    • Faiza Arshad
    • Julian J. Eaton-Rye

    Research Open access 15 March 2024

    

16. Towards understanding the crystallization of photosystem II: influence of poly(ethylene glycol) of various molecular sizes on the micelle formation of alkyl maltosides

    • Frank Müh
    • Adrian Bothe
    • Athina Zouni

    Research Open access 15 March 2024

    

17. Photo-induced processes in photosynthesis—from femtoseconds to seconds

    • Harvey J.M. Hou
    • Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev

    Preface 12 March 2024 Pages: 93 - 95

    

18. Three-state mathematical model for the assessment of DCMU-treated photosystem II heterogeneity

    • Tatiana Yu. Plyusnina
    • Sergei S. Khruschev
    • Andrew B. Rubin

    Research 11 March 2024 Pages: 303 - 320

    

19. The influence of cationic antiseptics on the processes of light energy conversion in various photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes

    • Peter P. Knox
    • Eugene P. Lukashev
    • Andrew B. Rubin

    Review 11 March 2024

    

20. EPR studies of ferredoxin in spinach and cyanobacterial thylakoids related to photosystem I-driven NADP⁺ reduction

    • Lisa M. Utschig
    • Colin L. Duckworth
    • Oleg G. Poluektov

    Research 05 March 2024

    

21. ApcE plays an important role in light-induced excitation energy dissipation in the Synechocystis PCC6803 phycobilisomes

    • Gonfa Tesfaye Assefa
    • Joshua L. Botha
    • Michal Gwizdala

    Research Open access 26 February 2024 Pages: 17 - 29

    

22. Modulating spectral response of raw photosynthetic pigments via ternary cadmium chalcogenide quantum dots: simultaneous enhancement at green spectrum and inhibition at UV region

    • Sümeyye Aykut
    • Nida Ük
    • Caner Ünlü

    Research Open access 26 February 2024 Pages: 1 - 16

    

23. Exceptional Quantum Efficiency Powers Biomass Production in Halotolerant Algae Picochlorum sp.^{^}

    • Colin Gates
    • Gennady Ananyev
    • G. Charles Dismukes

    Research 08 February 2024

    

24. Photogeneration and quenching of singlet molecular oxygen by bacterial C₄₀ carotenoids with long chain of conjugated double bonds

    • A. S. Benditkis
    • A. A. Ashikhmin
    • A. A. Krasnovsky Jr.

    Research 05 February 2024 Pages: 291 - 301

    

25. Identification and characterization of the low molecular mass ferredoxins involved in central metabolism in Heliomicrobium modesticaldum

    • Karim A. Walters
    • Kevin E. Redding
    • John H. Golbeck

    Research 02 February 2024

    

26. Eco-physiological trait variation in widely occurring species of Western Himalaya along elevational gradients reveals their high adaptive potential in stressful conditions

    • Nandita Mehta
    • Amit Chawla

    Research 25 January 2024 Pages: 29 - 59

    

27. Spectral and conformational characteristics of phycocyanin associated with changes of medium pH

    • E. Yu. Parshina
    • W. Liu
    • G. V. Maksimov

    Research 15 January 2024

    

28. How electron tunneling and uphill excitation energy transfer support photochemistry in Halomicronema hongdechloris

    • Franz-Josef Schmitt
    • Anne Hüls
    • Thomas Friedrich

    Research 10 January 2024 Pages: 273 - 289

    

29. Crystallographic and biochemical analyses of a far-red allophycocyanin to address the mechanism of the super-red-shift

    • Li-Juan Zhou
    • Astrid Höppner
    • Kai-Hong Zhao

    Research 06 January 2024

    

30. Macroscale structural changes of thylakoid architecture during high light acclimation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    • Mimi Broderson
    • Krishna K. Niyogi
    • Masakazu Iwai

    Research Open access 05 January 2024

    

31. Reinvestigation on primary processes of PSII-dimer from Thermosynechococcus vulcanus by femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy

    • Daisuke Kosumi
    • Miki Bandou-Uotani
    • Nobuo Kamiya

    Research 16 February 2024 Pages: 79 - 91

    

32. Jasmonic acid improves barley photosynthetic efficiency through a possible regulatory module, MYC2-RcaA, under combined drought and salinity stress

    • Massume Aliakbari
    • Sirous Tahmasebi
    • Javad Nouripour Sisakht

    Research 08 February 2024 Pages: 69 - 78

    

33. Extra O₂ evolution reveals an O₂-independent alternative electron sink in photosynthesis of marine diatoms

    • Ginga Shimakawa
    • Yusuke Matsuda

    Research 05 February 2024 Pages: 61 - 68

    

34. Genome-wide association study of leaf photosynthesis using a high-throughput gas exchange system in rice

    • Sotaro Honda
    • Ayumu Imamura
    • Shunsuke Adachi

    Research 19 December 2023 Pages: 17 - 28

    

35. The response of LncRNAs associated with photosynthesis-and pigment synthesis-related genes to green light in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    • Menghua Liu
    • Longxin Wang
    • Xiaochun Qin

    Research 18 December 2023

    

36. Peculiarities of DNP-INT and DBMIB as inhibitors of the photosynthetic electron transport

    • Daria Vilyanen
    • Ilya Pavlov
    • Marina Kozuleva

    Research 18 December 2023

    

37. Controlled electron transfer by molecular wires embedded in ultrathin insulating membranes for driving redox catalysis

    • Heinz Frei

    Review 18 December 2023

    

38. Roadmap of electrons from donor side to the reaction center of photosynthetic purple bacteria with mutated cytochromes

    • M. Kis
    • T. Szabó
    • P. Maróti

    Research Open access 30 November 2023 Pages: 261 - 272

    

39. Using picosecond fluorescence lifetime analysis to determine photosynthesis in the world’s oceans

    • Maxim Y. Gorbunov
    • Paul G. Falkowski

    Research 29 November 2023 Pages: 253 - 259

    

40. Preface to the special issue: the keynote lectures of the 18th International Congress on Photosynthesis Research

    • Terry M. Bricker
    • Julian J. Eaton-Rye

    Preface 23 November 2023 Pages: 77 - 80

    

41. Tracking the first electron transfer step at the donor side of oxygen-evolving photosystem II by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy

    • Mohamad Yahia Dekmak
    • Sarah M. Mäusle
    • Holger Dau

    Research Open access 23 November 2023

    

42. Perspectives of cyanobacterial cell factories

    • Anastasios Melis
    • Diego Alberto Hidalgo Martinez
    • Nico Betterle

    Review Open access 15 November 2023

    

43. Theoretical elucidation of the structure, bonding, and reactivity of the CaMn₄O_x clusters in the whole Kok cycle for water oxidation embedded in the oxygen evolving center of photosystem II. New molecular and quantum insights into the mechanism of the O–O bond formation

    • Kizashi Yamaguchi
    • Koichi Miyagawa
    • Takahito Nakajima

    Review Open access 09 November 2023

    

44. Physiological and biochemical study of the drought tolerance of 14 main olive cultivars in the Mediterranean basin

    • Elena Illana Rico
    • Genoveva Carmen Martos de la Fuente
    • Ana Maria Fernández Ocaña

    Research 04 November 2023 Pages: 1 - 16

    

45. Mn-porphyrins in a four-helix bundle participate in photo-induced electron transfer with a bacterial reaction center

    • J. C. Williams
    • M. S. Faillace
    • J. P. Allen

    Research 01 November 2023

    

46. The slope of assimilation rate against stomatal conductance should not be used as a measure of water use efficiency or stomatal control over assimilation

    • Chandra Bellasio

    Brief Report Open access 30 October 2023 Pages: 195 - 199

    

47. Correction to: The carbon-concentrating mechanism of the extremophilic red microalga Cyanidioschyzon merolae

    • Anne K. Steensma
    • Yair Shachar-Hill
    • Berkley J. Walker

    Correction Open access 18 October 2023 Pages: 203 - 203

48. Structural comparison of allophycocyanin variants reveals the molecular basis for their spectral differences

    • Christopher J. Gisriel
    • Eduard Elias
    • Donald A. Bryant

    Research Open access 29 September 2023

    

49. Absorption changes in Photosystem II in the Soret band region upon the formation of the chlorophyll cation radical [P_D1P_D2]⁺

    • Alain Boussac
    • Miwa Sugiura
    • Julien Sellés

    Research 26 September 2023

    

50. A quantitative assessment of (bacterio)chlorophyll assignments in the cryo-EM structure of the Chloracidobacterium thermophilum reaction center

    • Christopher J. Gisriel
    • David A. Flesher
    • Gary W. Brudvig

    Research 25 September 2023