The effect of protein phosphorylation on the functional activity of PS2 under control and photoinhibitory conditions has been investigated. The time course of phosphorylated and non-phosphorylated PS2 enriched membranes (BBYs) has been monitored by chlorophyll fluorescence using a PAM fluorimeter. The results show that photochemical activity did not change during treatment in the dark but decre...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a common and widespread infection that poses a serious threat among carriers for the development of life-threatening liver diseases. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the riboflavin photochemical method in inactivating duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV) in plasma via an animal model. Forty ducks were selected and randomly divided into the ex...

The growth of phytoplankton and thus marine primary productivity depend on photophysiological performance of phytoplankton cells that respond to changing environmental conditions. The South China Sea (SCS) is the largest marginal sea of the western Pacific and plays important roles in modulating regional climate and carbon budget. However, little has been documented on photophysiological charac...

The effect of excess of cadmium (Cd) on chlorophyll fluorescence of barley seedlings was studied. The leaves were dark-adapted and then illuminated at 10 different light intensities within the range of 70–1600 μmol.m–2.s–1 photosynthetically active radiation (PAR). It was found that Cd decreases the chlorophyll fluorescence parameters in dark-adapted leaves: ground (Fo), maximal (Fm) and variab...

Hydrogen evolution coupled with the photochemical oxygenation of cyclohexene with water was observed in the system sensitized by Sn(IV)-porphyrin adsorbed on Pt loaded TiO2 nano-particles in aqueous acetonitrile solution upon visible light irradiation.

The visible-light-driven, phase-transfer-catalyzed, enantioselective perfluoroalkylation and trifluoromethylation of cyclic β-ketoesters is described. The photo-organocatalytic process, which occurs at ambient temperature and under visible light illumination, is triggered by the photochemical activity of in situ-generated electron donor-acceptor complexes, arising from the association of chiral...

Chromera velia (Alveolata) is a close relative to apicomplexan parasites with a functional photosynthetic plastid. Even though C. velia has a primitive complement of pigments (lacks chlorophyll c) and uses an ancient type II form of RuBISCO, we found that its photosynthesis is very efficient with the ability to acclimate to a wide range of irradiances. C. velia maintain similar maximal photosyn...