Protochlorophyllide Reduction and Greening

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Preface....Pages 1-5
Introduction....Pages 7-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
A Critical Appraisal of the Role and Regulation of NADPH-Protochlorophyllide Oxidoreductase in Greening Plants....Pages 19-29
Changes in the Properties of Protochlorophyllide Reductase during Early Greening of Etiolated Squash Cotyledons....Pages 31-42
Proteolytic Effects on the Protochlorophyllide-Oxidoreductase in Oat....Pages 43-52
Characterization of PChlide Protein Complexes in PT and PLB Enriched Fractions of Bean Etioplasts. Effect of NADPH....Pages 53-67
Protochlorophyll (Ide) and Chlorophyll (Ide) in Isolated Original and Reformed Prolamellar Bodies....Pages 69-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
The Long-Wavelength-Absorbing Quenchers Formed during Illumination of Protochlorophyllide-Proteins....Pages 87-98
Early Processes of Protochlorophyllide Photoreduction as Measured by Nanosecond and Picosecond Spectrophotometry....Pages 99-112
The Primary Reaction in the Photoreduction of Protochlorophyllide. A Nanosecond Fluorescence Study....Pages 113-125
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Protochlorophyllide and Chlorophyllide-Protein Complexes during Greening....Pages 129-138
Fluorescence Emission Spectra of Etiolated Leaves Measured at 296 and 77 K during the First Seconds of Continuous Illumination....Pages 139-148
The Regulatory Effect of the Cysteine/Cystine Redox Couple on Protochlorophyllide Photoreduction in Etioplasts....Pages 149-159
The Influence of the NADPH/NADP + Redox Couple on the Photoreduction of Protochlorophyllide and on the Spectral Characteristics of the Chlorophyllide-Proteins in Etioplasts....Pages 161-173
The Photoreduction of Zinc-Protochlorophyllide by Isolated Etioplast Lamellae....Pages 175-189
A Model for the Reduction of Protochlorophyll(Ide) Containing Three Different Forms of Photo-Active Protochlorophyll(Ide)....Pages 191-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
The Franck-Inoue Chlorophyllide Microcycle II in Vivo and in Vitro ....Pages 197-222
Extension of the Experiment by J.H.C. Smith on the Onset of the Oxygen Evolution in Etiolated Bean Leaves....Pages 223-236
Thermoluminescence in Etiolated Bean Leaves....Pages 237-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Biosynthesis of the Pigment-Protein Complexes....Pages 243-254
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Low-Temperature Fluorescence Spectra of Phaseolus vulgaris Plastids during Development in Periodic or Continuous Light in the Presence of the Internal Fluorescence Standard Phycocyanin....Pages 255-263
The Composition of Stroma and Grana Thylakoid Pigment-Protein Complexes....Pages 265-274
Effect of Light and Protein Crosslinkers on the Ultrastructure of Isolated Etioplast Membranes....Pages 275-294
Front Matter....Pages 295-295
The Energy Migration in Pigment Assembly in Relation to the Chlorophyll Biosynthesis....Pages 297-305
The Bioenergetic Description of Light Energy Migration in Photoactive Membranes; Equivalence between the Theory of the Energy Fluxes and the Theory of the Proportion of Pigments Forms to Total Pigments....Pages 307-316
The Dynamics of the Photoreduction of Protochlorophyll(Ide) into Chlorophyll(Ide)....Pages 317-327
Front Matter....Pages 329-329
Photochemical Reduction of Protochlorophyllide in Detergent Micelles with the Final Chlorophyllide Formation....Pages 331-339
Molecular Structure of Protochlorophyll Forms....Pages 341-349
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Dark Synthesis of Chlorophyll in Vivo and Dark Reduction of Protochlorophyllide in Vitro by Pea Chloroplasts....Pages 353-363
Effects of Leaf Age on Protochlorophyllide and Chlorophyllide Formation (A Review)....Pages 365-375
Back Matter....Pages 377-391