Bleaching Herbicides, Algae, Scenedesmus acutus, Carotenoids, Chlorophyll, Air/Nitrogen Gassing Over 24 and 48 hour cultivation periods the influence of SAN 9789 (norflurazon), EMD-IT 5914 (difunon) and fluridone on growth, photosynthetic oxygen evolution and pigment content of the green alga Scenedesmus acutus was determined. Four effects were observed: a) Both carotenoid and chlorophyll forma...

to study the effect of humic acid and drought stress on some physiological characteristics of roselle (hibiscus sabdariffa) an experiment was conducted in the research field of agricultural education centre of jiroft in 2013. field experiment was carried out as split plot design with three replications. water deficit stress as main factor with three levels (a1 = irrigation after 50, a2 = 100 an...

Carotenoids are isoprenoid molecules of 40 carbons which are synthesized in a wide variety of photosynthetic (plants, algae) and non photosynthetic (some fungi and bacteria) organisms. So far, over 750 carotenoid structures are known, and these are divided into nonoxygenated molecules designated as carotenes and into oxygenated carotenoids referred to as xanthophylls. In photosynthetic organism...

background: nanosilver particles are among the potentially candidates for modulating the redox status and changing the growth, performance and quality of plants because of their physicochemical characteristics.   objective: this study was carried out to elucidate the potential effects of nanosilver particles application on variations of photosynthetic pigments (chlorophyll and carotenoids) and ...

in order to investigated the effect of flooding, different nutrition levels an anti-oxidant characteristics, chlorophyll fluorescence, amount of chlorophyll (a, b) and carotenoids leaves soybean (glycine max (l.) merr), cultivar dpx research at the university of agricultural sciences and natural resources, gorgan, in a completely randomized design to factorial arrangement with three replication...

1. Although the carotenoid pigments are present in large concentration in the plastids of etiolated Avena seedlings as compared with protochlorophyll, the pigment precursor of chlorophyll, it is possible to show that the carotenoids do not act as filters of the light incident on the plant in the blue region of the spectrum where they absorb heavily. This suggests that the carotenoids are locate...

Peridinin-chlorophyll-protein (PCP) is a unique light-harvesting protein that uses carotenoids as its primary light-absorbers. This paper theoretically investigates excitation transfer between carotenoids and chlorophylls in PCP of the dinoflagellate Amphidinium carterae. Calculations based on a description of the electronic states of the participating chromophores and on the atomic level struc...

Two fractions of thylakoid membranes (TMF) have been isolated from disrupted (French press) algal cells by using a discontinuous sucrose gradient. TMF-II consists mostly of thylakoid membranes still partially organized in grana; it contains also fragments of chloroplast envelope, pyrenoid tubules, and starch granules; thus it amounts to a fraction of chloroplast fragments which have lost practi...

The goal of this study was to determine the content of bioactive substances (chlorophyll, carotenoids, vitamin C) in less-known leafy vegetable species, such as Chinese mustard (Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. Et Coss.), mibuna (Brassica rapa ssp. japonica Makino) and mizuna (Brassica rapa ssp. nipposinica (Bailey) Hanelt). Within study, two cultivars of Chinese mustard were tested, concretely cv. ...