Discoveries in Photosynthesis

Front Matter....Pages 1-3
Celebrating the millennium — historical highlights of photosynthesis research, Part 1....Pages 5-10
Celebrating the millennium — historical highlights of photosynthesis research, Part 2....Pages 11-21
Celebrating the millennium — historical highlights of photosynthesis research, Part 3....Pages 23-35
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
History of the word photosynthesis and evolution of its definition....Pages 39-42
In one era and out the other....Pages 43-50
Time line of discoveries: anoxygenic bacterial photosynthesis....Pages 51-62
Discoveries in oxygenic photosynthesis (1727–2003): a perspective....Pages 63-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
‘And whose bright presence’ — an appreciation of Robert Hill and his reaction....Pages 109-112
The contributions of James Franck to photosynthesis research: a tribute....Pages 113-118
Hydrogen metabolism of green algae: discovery and early research — a tribute to Hans Gaffron and his coworkers....Pages 119-129
Samuel Ruben’s contributions to research on photosynthesis and bacterial metabolism with radioactive carbon....Pages 131-137
Contributions of Henrik Lundegårdh....Pages 139-144
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Photosynthetic exciton theory in the 1960s....Pages 147-154
Excitation energy trapping in anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria....Pages 155-163
Fluorescence lifetime, yield, energy transfer and spectrum in photosynthesis, 1950–1960....Pages 165-170
Visualization of excitation energy transfer processes in plants and algae....Pages 171-176
Plastoquinone redox control of chloroplast thylakoid protein phosphorylation and distribution of excitation energy between photosystems: discovery, background, implications....Pages 177-186
Excitation transfer between photosynthetic units: the 1964 experiment....Pages 187-191
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Research on photosynthetic reaction centers from 1932 to 1987....Pages 195-203
Chlorophyll chemistry before and after crystals of photosynthetic reaction centers....Pages 205-212
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Electron donors and acceptors in the initial steps of photosynthesis in purple bacteria: a personal account....Pages 213-224
My daily constitutional in Martinsried....Pages 225-231
The two-electron gate in photosynthetic bacteria....Pages 233-236
Steps on the way to building blocks, topologies, crystals and X-ray structural analysis of Photosystems I and II of water-oxidizing photosynthesis....Pages 238-259
The identification of the Photosystem II reaction center: a personal story....Pages 261-268
The isolated Photosystem II reaction center: first attempts to directly measure the kinetics of primary charge separation....Pages 269-274
Discovery of pheophytin function in the photosynthetic energy conversion as the primary electron acceptor of Photosystem II....Pages 275-281
Engine of life and big bang of evolution: a personal perspective....Pages 283-301
Role of bicarbonate at the acceptor side of Photosystem II....Pages 303-310
Unraveling the Photosystem I reaction center: a history, or the sum of many efforts....Pages 311-326
Photosystem I reaction center: past and future....Pages 327-340
P430: a retrospective, 1971–2001....Pages 341-348
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Apparatus and mechanism of photosynthetic oxygen evolution: a personal perspective....Pages 351-370
Period-four oscillations of the flash-induced oxygen formation in photosynthesis....Pages 371-378
Period four oscillations in chlorophyll a fluorescence....Pages 379-382
Chloride and calcium in Photosystem II: from effects to enigma....Pages 383-389
The bicarbonate effect, oxygen evolution, and the shadow of Otto Warburg....Pages 391-397
Early indications for manganese oxidation state changes during photosynthetic oxygen production: a personal account....Pages 399-409
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Purple bacterial light-harvesting complexes: from dreams to structures....Pages 413-419
The FMO protein....Pages 421-427
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Physical separation of chlorophyll-protein complexes....Pages 429-434
How the chlorophyll-proteins got their names....Pages 435-442
Phycobiliproteins and phycobilisomes: the early observations....Pages 443-451
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Discovery and characterization of electron transfer proteins in the photosynthetic bacteria....Pages 455-470
Membrane-anchored cytochrome c as an electron carrier in photosynthesis and respiration: past, present and future of an unexpected discovery....Pages 471-478
The Q-cycle — a personal perspective....Pages 479-499
The isolation of a functional cytochrome b 6 f complex: from lucky encounter to rewarding experiences....Pages 501-515
 Ironies in photosynthetic electron transport: a personal perspective....Pages 517-529
The unfinished story of cytochrome f ....Pages 531-542
Early research on the role of plastocyanin in photosynthesis....Pages 543-549
Irrungen, Wirrungen? The Mehler reaction in relation to cyclic electron transport in C3 plants....Pages 551-559
Photophosphorylation and the chemiosmotic perspective....Pages 561-569
Protons, proteins and ATP....Pages 573-595
On why thylakoids energize ATP formation using either delocalized or localized proton gradients — a Ca 2+ mediated role in thylakoid stress responses....Pages 597-615
Front Matter....Pages 617-617
The stopped-flow method and chemical intermediates in enzyme reactions — a personal essay....Pages 621-632
The chequered history of the development and use of simultaneous equations for the accurate determination of chlorophylls a and b ....Pages 633-640
The contribution of photosynthetic pigments to the development of biochemical separation methods: 1900–1980....Pages 641-649
On some aspects of photosynthesis revealed by photoacoustic studies: a critical evaluation....Pages 651-663
The history of photosynthetic thermoluminescence....Pages 665-680
Trails of green alga hydrogen research — from Hans Gaffron to new frontiers....Pages 681-689
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Engineering the chloroplast encoded proteins of Chlamydomonas....Pages 691-699
Pictorial demonstrations of photosynthesis....Pages 701-705
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Membrane biogenesis in anoxygenic photosynthetic prokaryotes....Pages 709-716
Chloroplast structure: from chlorophyll granules to supra-molecular architecture of thylakoid membranes....Pages 717-728
Changing concepts about the distribution of Photosystems I and II between grana-appressed and stroma-exposed thylakoid membranes....Pages 729-736
Chloroplasts in living cells and the string-of-grana concept of chloroplast structure revisited....Pages 737-744
From chloroplasts to chaperones: how one thing led to another....Pages 745-755
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‘Every dogma has its day’: a personal look at carbon metabolism in photosynthetic bacteria....Pages 761-769
Research on carbon dioxide fixation in photosynthetic microorganisms (1971-present)....Pages 771-788
Nitrogen fixation by photosynthetic bacteria....Pages 789-792
Following the path of carbon in photosynthesis: a personal story....Pages 795-813
Mapping the carbon reduction cycle: a personal retrospective....Pages 817-832
Chloroplasts in envelopes: CO 2 fixation by fully functional intact chloroplasts....Pages 833-841
Along the trail from Fraction I protein to Rubisco ( r ib u lose bis phosphate c arboxylase- o xygenase)....Pages 843-850
The discovery of Rubisco activase — yet another story of serendipity....Pages 851-858
The ferredoxin/thioredoxin system: from discovery to molecular structures and beyond....Pages 859-866
How is ferredoxin-NADP reductase involved in the NADP photoreduction of chloroplasts?....Pages 867-873
C 4 photosynthesis: discovery and resolution....Pages 875-880
Crassulacean acid metabolism photosynthesis: ‘working the night shift’....Pages 881-893
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Three decades in transport business: studies of metabolite transport in chloroplasts — a personal perspective....Pages 897-904
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The present model for chlororespiration....Pages 905-909
Affixing the O to Rubisco: discovering the source of photorespiratory glycolate and its regulation....Pages 911-921
Linking the xanthophyll cycle with thermal energy dissipation....Pages 923-930
Photoinhibition — a historical perspective....Pages 931-958
A molecular understanding of complementary chromatic adaptation....Pages 959-967
Anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria from extreme environments....Pages 969-983
Light-induced behavioral responses (‘phototaxis’) in prokaryotes....Pages 985-995
Front Matter....Pages 997-997
The early history of the genetics of photosynthetic bacteria: a personal account....Pages 999-1002
Photosynthesis genes and their expression in Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1: a tribute to my students and associates....Pages 1003-1016
Regulation of photosystem synthesis in Rhodobacter capsulatus ....Pages 1017-1024
Photosynthesis research: advances through molecular biology — the beginnings, 1975–1980s and on. . .....Pages 1027-1045
The three genomes of Chlamydomonas....Pages 1047-1055
History of chloroplast genomics....Pages 1057-1063
Gene-targeted and site-directed mutagenesis of photosynthesis genes in cyanobacteria....Pages 1065-1070
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Thinking about the evolution of photosynthesis....Pages 1073-1086
Evolutionary relationships among photosynthetic bacteria....Pages 1087-1097
On the natural selection and evolution of the aerobic phototrophic bacteria....Pages 1099-1104
Prochlorophyta — a matter of class distinctions....Pages 1105-1107
The archaeal concept and the world it lives in: a retrospective....Pages 1111-1120
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The Laboratory of Photosynthesis and its successors at Gif-sur-Yvette, France....Pages 1123-1131
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Photosynthesis and the Charles F. Kettering Research Laboratory....Pages 1133-1142
Chlorophyll isolation, structure and function: major landmarks of the early history of research in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union....Pages 1143-1157
Studies of chlorophyll biosynthesis in Russia....Pages 1159-1165
The beginnings of research on biophysics of photosynthesis and initial contributions made by Russian scientists to its development....Pages 1167-1180
Photosynthesis research in Greece: a historical snapshot (1960–2001)....Pages 1181-1187
Photosynthesis research in India: transition from yield physiology into molecular biology....Pages 1189-1204
Photosynthesis research in the People’s Republic of China....Pages 1205-1212
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A list of personal perspectives with selected quotations, along with lists of tributes, historical notes, Nobel and Kettering awards related to photosynthesis....Pages 1219-1228
Passage of a young Indian physical chemist through the world of photosynthesis research at Urbana, Illinois, in the 1960s: a personal essay....Pages 1229-1239
The conference at Airlie House in 1963....Pages 1241-1248
A list of photosynthesis conferences and of edited books in photosynthesis....Pages 1249-1262