1. Celebrating the millennium – historical highlights of photosynthesis research, Part 2

   • Govindjee
   • J. Thomas Beatty
   • Howard Gest

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 11

2. Photosynthesis research: advances through molecular biology – the beginnings, 1975–1980s and on...

   • Lawrence Bogorad

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 33

3. Mapping the carbon reduction cycle: a personal retrospective

   • James A. Bassham

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 52

4. Affixing the O to Rubisco: discovering the source of photorespiratory glycolate and its regulation

   • William L. Ogren

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 63

5. Period-four oscillations of the flash-induced oxygen formation in photosynthesis^*

   • Pierre Joliot

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 72

6. Linking the xanthophyll cycle with thermal energy dissipation^*

   • Barbara Demmig-Adams

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 80

7. Electron donors and acceptors in the initial steps of photosynthesis in purple bacteria: a personal account

   • William W. Parson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 92

8. Hydrogen metabolism of green algae: discovery and early research – a tribute to Hans Gaffron and his coworkers

   • Peter H. Homann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 103

9. Contributions of Henrik Lundegårdh

   • Anthony William Derek Larkum

   OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 110

10. Discovery and characterization of electron transfer proteins in the photosynthetic bacteria

    • Terrance E. Meyer
    • Michael A. Cusanovich

    OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 126

11. Membrane-anchored cytochrome c as an electron carrier in photosynthesis and respiration: past, present and future of an unexpected discovery

    • Fevzi Daldal
    • Meenal Deshmukh
    • Roger C. Prince

    OriginalPaper Pages: 127 - 134

12. `Every dogma has its day'^*: a personal look at carbon metabolism in photosynthetic bacteria

    • John Ormerod

    OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 143

13. Light-induced behavioral responses (`phototaxis') in prokaryotes

    • Judith P. Armitage
    • Klaas J. Hellingwerf

    OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 155

14. Anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria from extreme environments

    • Michael T. Madigan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 171

15. Evolutionary relationships among photosynthetic bacteria

    • Radhey S. Gupta

    OriginalPaper Pages: 173 - 183

16. Chloroplast structure: from chlorophyll granules to supra-molecular architecture of thylakoid membranes

    • L. Andrew Staehelin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 196

17. Phycobiliproteins and phycobilisomes: the early observations

    • Nicole Tandeau de Marsac

    OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 205

18. A molecular understanding of complementary chromatic adaptation

    • Arthur R. Grossman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 207 - 215

19. The contribution of photosynthetic pigments to the development of biochemical separation methods: 1900–1980

    • Per-Åke Albertsson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 217 - 225

20. Physical separation of chlorophyll-protein complexes

    • Teruo Ogawa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 227 - 232

21. The identification of the Photosystem II reaction center: a personal story

    • Kimiyuki Satoh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 233 - 240

22. Excitation transfer between photosynthetic units: the 1964 experiment

    • Pierre Joliot
    • Anne Joliot

    OriginalPaper Pages: 241 - 245

23. Discovery of pheophytin function in the photosynthetic energy conversion as the primary electron acceptor of Photosystem II

    • Vyacheslav V. Klimov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 247 - 253

24. Early research on the role of plastocyanin in photosynthesis

    • Sakae Katoh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 255 - 261

25. The isolated Photosystem II reaction center: first attempts to directly measure the kinetics of primary charge separation

    • Michael Seibert
    • Michael R. Wasielewski

    OriginalPaper Pages: 263 - 268

26. Apparatus and mechanism of photosynthetic oxygen evolution: a personal perspective^*

    • Gernot Renger

    OriginalPaper Pages: 269 - 288

27. On some aspects of photosynthesis revealed by photoacoustic studies: a critical evaluation

    • René Delosme

    OriginalPaper Pages: 289 - 301

28. The history of photosynthetic thermoluminescence

    • Imre Vass

    OriginalPaper Pages: 303 - 318

29. Chloroplasts in envelopes: CO₂ fixation by fully functional intact chloroplasts

    • David Alan Walker

    OriginalPaper Pages: 319 - 327

30. Crassulacean acid metabolism photosynthesis: `working the night shift'

    • Clanton C. Black
    • C. Barry Osmond

    OriginalPaper Pages: 329 - 341

31. Photoinhibition – a historical perspective

    • Noam Adir
    • Hagit Zer
    • Itzhak Ohad

    OriginalPaper Pages: 343 - 370

32. History of chloroplast genomics

    • Masahiro Sugiura

    OriginalPaper Pages: 371 - 377

33. Photosynthesis and the Charles F. Kettering Research Laboratory

    • Leo P. Vernon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 379 - 388

34. Chlorophyll isolation, structure and function: major landmarks of the early history of research in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

    • Alexander A. Krasnovsky Jr

    OriginalPaper Pages: 389 - 403

35. Studies of chlorophyll biosynthesis in Russia

    • Olga B. Belyaeva

    OriginalPaper Pages: 405 - 411

36. The beginnings of research on biophysics of photosynthesis and initial contributions made by Russian scientists to its development

    • Alexander Borisov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 413 - 426

37. Photosynthesis research in Greece: a historical snapshot (1960–2001)

    • George C. Papageorgiou

    OriginalPaper Pages: 427 - 433

38. Photosynthesis research in India: transition from yield physiology into molecular biology

    • Agepati S. Raghavendra
    • Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane
    • Prasanna Mohanty

    OriginalPaper Pages: 435 - 450

39. Photosynthesis research in the People's Republic of China¹

    • Ting-Yun Kuang
    • Chunhe Xu
    • Yun-Kang Shen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 451 - 458