Efficient light harvesting through carotenoids
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Photosynthesis Research
- Vol. 66 (1/2) , 125-144
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1010750332320
Abstract
We review the factors that control the efficiency of carotenoid-chlorophyll excitation transfer in photosynthetic light harvesting. For this we summarize first the recently developed theory that...Keywords
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