Plants and algae have acquired the ability to acclimate to ever-changing environments in
order to survive. During photosynthesis, light energy is converted by several membrane …

Non-photochemical quenching of excess excitation energy is an important photoprotective
mechanism in photosynthetic organisms. In Arabidopsis thaliana, a high quenching capacity …

Plants and green algae have a low pH-inducible mechanism in photosystem II (PSII) that
dissipates excess light energy, measured as the nonphotochemical quenching of …

Relating the photosynthetic processes of algae to their environments requires that the
responses are considered over time-scales of seconds to minutes (regulation), hours to days …

Background and Aims Under high photon flux, excitation energy may be in excess in
aluminum (Al)-treated leaves, which use a smaller fraction of the absorbed light in electron …

Recognising that plant leaves are the fundamental productive units of terrestrial vegetation
and the complexity of different environments in which they must function, this review …

Although light is the source of energy for photosynthetic organisms, it causes oxidative
stress when in excess. Plants and algae prevent reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation …

Photoacclimation is a suite of phenotypically expressed, developmentally independent,
reversible physiological feedback responses to short-term (minutes to days) variations in …

Photoinhibition was examined in four co-occurring Mediterranean evergreen tree species
during two consecutive winters. In response to low temperatures and saturating light …

Investigations into high light and oxidative stress in photosynthetic organisms have focussed
primarily on genetic impairment of different photoprotective functions. There are few reports …