Photosynthesis in Algae

Content: 
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
The Algae and their General Characteristics....Pages 1-10
Algal Plastids: Their Fine Structure and Properties....Pages 11-28
The Photosynthetic Apparatus of Chlorophyll b- and d-Containing Oxyphotobacteria....Pages 29-62
Structure and Regulation of Algal Light-Harvesting Complex Genes....Pages 63-82
Functional Analysis of Plastid Genes through Chloroplast Reverse Genetics in Chlamydomonas....Pages 83-94
Biochemistry and Regulation of Chlorophyll Biosynthesis....Pages 95-131
Oxygenic Photosynthesis in Algae and Cyanobacteria: Electron Transfer in Photosystems I and II....Pages 133-156
Oxygen Consumption: Photorespiration and Chlororespiration....Pages 157-181
The Water-Water Cycle in Algae....Pages 183-204
Carbohydrate Metabolism and Respiration in Algae....Pages 205-224
Carbon Acquisition Mechanisms of Algae: Carbon Dioxide Diffusion and Carbon Dioxide Concentrating Mechanisms....Pages 225-244
Modeling the Excitation Energy Capture in Thylakoid Membranes....Pages 245-276
Light-Harvesting Systems in Algae....Pages 277-304
Red, Cryptomonad and Glaucocystophyte Algal Phycobiliproteins....Pages 305-334
Carotenoids of Light Harvesting Systems: Energy Transfer Processes from Fucoxanthin and Peridinin to Chlorophyll....Pages 335-349
Photoinhibition, UV-B and Algal Photosynthesis....Pages 351-384
Adaptation, Acclimation and Regulation in Algal Photosynthesis....Pages 385-412
Photosynthesis in Marine Macroalgae....Pages 413-435
Photosynthesis in Symbiotic Algae....Pages 437-455
Back Matter....Pages 457-480