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I was the first, among Govindjee’s graduate students, to finish a PhD under his supervision. Since I finished my PhD (in Biophysics in 1969), we have been friends, and research collaborators. Even now, after more than 40 years, we continue to exchange ideas and publish together. Two accounts have summarized Govindjee’s career. The first [Eaton-Rye, JJ (2007) Photosynth Res 93: 1–5] celebrated Govindjee’s 50 years in photosynthesis with a short article, and the second [Eaton-Rye, JJ (2007) Photosynth Res 94: 153–178] provided snapshots of the Govindjee’s lab from the late 1960s to the late 1990s and beyond. Here, I present Govindjee’s research contributions from 1955, when he published his first research paper in India, till 1969 when I graduated, and the famous Rabinowitch and Govindjee book on Photosynthesis (John Wiley) was published.
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Emerson Enhancement Effect refers to the following: at low light intensities, when the rate of photosynthesis increases linearly with increasing light intensity, two-light beams, of different wavelengths of light (say e.g., 650 and 710 nm) given simultaneously give higher rates of photosynthesis than the sum of the rates of photosynthesis when these two-light beams are given separately to the photosynthetic organism.
Abbreviations
- Chl –:
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Chlorophyll;
- PS –:
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Photosystem;
- UIUC –:
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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I thank Julian Eaton-Rye for inviting me to participate in writing about Govindjee’s contributions from his graduate days till he became, in 1969, a full Professor of Biophysics and Botany at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I thank Govindjee for providing his autobiographical notes (also see: http://www.life.illinois.edu/govindjee/) that helped me in preparing this chapter.
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Papageorgiou, G.C. (2012). Contributions of Govindjee, 1955–1969. In: Eaton-Rye, J., Tripathy, B., Sharkey, T. (eds) Photosynthesis. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1579-0_31
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