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Nature has developped the apparatus of photosynthesis in such a way that it works under extremely different light conditions. The apparatus must be adaptable to light intensities in the range from ˞ l erg/ cm2s (dim light) up to ˞ 5•105 erg/cm2s (bright sun light). At low intensity the rare number of quanta absorbed by the bulk hits the small number of photochemical active reaction centers C nevertheless with the probability of ˞ l because energy migration in the bulk pigments channels the quanta to the centers (EMERSON & ARNOLD 1932, GRAFFRON & WOHL 1936).
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Wolff, C., Witt, H.T. (1972). On Metastable States of Carotenoids in Primary Events of Photosynthesis. In: Forti, G., Avron, M., Melandri, A. (eds) Photosynthesis, two centuries after its discovery by Joseph Priestley. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2938-4_6
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