The Hill reaction is one of the simplest chloroplast reactions in which one can measure in unambiguous terms both the reducing and the oxidizing equivalents produced in the process of photosyntnesis. In its simplest aspect, the oxidizing power is measured as oxygen production, while the reducing power is measured in terms of reduction of some electron acceptor (9). Two other photochemical react...

Potassium ions and amino acids were found to leak from the cytoplasm to the outer medium when the blue-green alga, Anacystis nidulans, was exposed to the chilling temperatures. The leakage was marked below the critical temperature regions, the midpoint values for which were around 5 and 14 C in cells grown at 28 and 38 C, respectively. These temperature regions coincided with those critical for...

1. Exposure of chloroplasts to sonic oscillation in a medium of low osmolarity rapidly inactivated the Hill reaction, photophosphorylation, and photooxidation of ascorbate in the presence of dichlorophenyl-1 , 1 -dimethylurea. Concurrently with this inactivation plastocyanin was liberated from the chloroplasts. The addition of plastocyanin during sonic oscillation prevented net loss of plastocy...

This study was undertaken to find cl simple and accurate structural parameter for the quantitative description of inhibitory potency of alcoxyuracils in the Hill reaction and to gain more information about the mechanism of inhibition on the molecular level. A very good correlation (1' = 0.987) was obtained between pho values (negative Iogarithm of the concentration that causes 50% inhibition) a...

to explore the function of light-harvesting complex protein (lhcp) in arabidopsis growth and development, the leclere and bartel seed collection was screened. in this collection randomly cloned cdnas are expressed under the camv35s promoter. a pale green line has been identified and characterized in more details. analysis of the inserted cdna in the pale green line showed it encodes lhcb1 prote...

This study was undertaken to find a simple and accurate structural parameters for the quantita­ tive description of inhibitory potency of 2-azido-s-triazines in Hill reaction and to gain more information about the mechanism of inhibition on molecular level. A very good correlation (r = 0.946) was obtained between the plS(> values (the negative logarithm of the molar concentra­ tion that causes ...

The experiments recorded in this paper, dealing with effects of 2537/~ on intact ceils of green algae, were initiated in the hope of gaining more insight into the nature and properties of the catalysts of photosynthesis sensitive to 2537/~; and, possibly by comparison of the sensitivities of the various processes studied, to gain some information as to the relation between them. We have investi...