Allen, John F.
Discoveries in Photosynthesis
I.. Editorials
1. Celebrating the millennium — historical highlights of photosynthesis research, Part 1
Govindjee, Howard Gest
2. Celebrating the millennium — historical highlights of photosynthesis research, Part 2
Govindjee, J. Thomas Beatty, Howard Gest
3. Celebrating the millennium — historical highlights of photosynthesis research, Part 3
Govindjee, John F. Allen, J. Thomas Beatty
II.. Overviews and Timelines
4. History of the word
Howard Gest
5. In one era and out the other
Jack Myers
6. Time line of discoveries: anoxygenic bacterial photosynthesis
Howard Gest, Robert E. Blankenship
7. Discoveries in oxygenic photosynthesis (1727–2003): a perspective
Govindjee, David Krogmann
III.. Tributes
8. ‘And whose bright presence’ — an appreciation of Robert Hill and his reaction
David Alan Walker
9. The contributions of James Franck to photosynthesis research: a tribute
Jerome L. Rosenberg
10. Hydrogen metabolism of green algae: discovery and early research — a tribute to Hans Gaffron and his coworkers
Peter H. Homann
11. Samuel Ruben’s contributions to research on photosynthesis and bacterial metabolism with radioactive carbon
Howard Gest
12. Contributions of Henrik Lundegårdh
Anthony William Derek Larkum
IV.. Excitation Energy Transfer
13. Photosynthetic exciton theory in the 1960s
Robert M. Pearlstein
14. Excitation energy trapping in anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria
Jan Amesz, Sieglinde Neerken
15. Fluorescence lifetime, yield, energy transfer and spectrum in photosynthesis, 1950–1960
Seymour Steven Brody
16. Visualization of excitation energy transfer processes in plants and algae
Mamoru Mimuro
17. Plastoquinone redox control of chloroplast thylakoid protein phosphorylation and distribution of excitation energy between photosystems: discovery, background, implications
John F. Allen
18. Excitation transfer between photosynthetic units: the 1964 experiment
Pierre Joliot, Anne Joliot
V.. Reaction Centers
19. Research on photosynthetic reaction centers from 1932 to 1987
Roderick K. Clayton
20. Chlorophyll chemistry before and after crystals of photosynthetic reaction centers
Jack Fajer
21. Electron donors and acceptors in the initial steps of photosynthesis in purple bacteria: a personal account
William W. Parson
22. My daily constitutional in Martinsried
James P. Allen
23. The two-electron gate in photosynthetic bacteria
André Verméglio
24. Steps on the way to building blocks, topologies, crystals and X-ray structural analysis of Photosystems I and II of water-oxidizing photosynthesis
Horst Tobias Witt
25. The identification of the Photosystem II reaction center: a personal story
Kimiyuki Satoh
26. The isolated Photosystem II reaction center: first attempts to directly measure the kinetics of primary charge separation
Michael Seibert, Michael R. Wasielewski
27. Discovery of pheophytin function in the photosynthetic energy conversion as the primary electron acceptor of Photosystem II
Vyacheslav V. Klimov
28. Engine of life and big bang of evolution: a personal perspective
James Barber
29. Role of bicarbonate at the acceptor side of Photosystem II
Jack J. S. Rensen
30. Unraveling the Photosystem I reaction center: a history, or the sum of many efforts
Petra Fromme, Paul Mathis
31. Photosystem I reaction center: past and future
Nathan Nelson, Adam Ben-Shem
32. P430: a retrospective, 1971–2001
Bacon Ke
VI.. Oxygen Evolution
33. Apparatus and mechanism of photosynthetic oxygen evolution: a personal perspective
Gernot Renger
34. Period-four oscillations of the flash-induced oxygen formation in photosynthesis
Pierre Joliot
35. Period four oscillations in chlorophyll
Renée Delosme, Pierre Joliot
36. Chloride and calcium in Photosystem II: from effects to enigma
Peter H. Homann
37. The bicarbonate effect, oxygen evolution, and the shadow of Otto Warburg
Alan J. Stemler
38. Early indications for manganese oxidation state changes during photosynthetic oxygen production: a personal account
Thomas J. Wydrzynski
VII.. Light-Harvesting and Pigment-Protein Complexes
39. Purple bacterial light-harvesting complexes: from dreams to structures
Richard J. Cogdell, Hideki Hashimoto, Alastair T. Gardiner
40. The FMO protein
John M. Olson
41. Physical separation of chlorophyll-protein complexes
Teruo Ogawa
42. How the chlorophyll-proteins got their names
Edith L. Camm, Beverley R. Green
43. Phycobiliproteins and phycobilisomes: the early observations
Nicole Tandeau Marsac
VIII.. Electron Transport and ATP Synthesis
44. Discovery and characterization of electron transfer proteins in the photosynthetic bacteria
Terrance E. Meyer, Michael A. Cusanovich
45. Membrane-anchored cytochrome
Fevzi Daldal, Meenal Deshmukh, Roger C. Prince
46. The Q-cycle — a personal perspective
Antony R. Crofts
47. The isolation of a functional cytochrome
Günter Hauska
48.
William A. Cramer
49. The unfinished story of cytochrome
Derek S. Bendall
50. Early research on the role of plastocyanin in photosynthesis
Sakae Katoh
51. Irrungen, Wirrungen? The Mehler reaction in relation to cyclic electron transport in C3 plants
Ulrich Heber
52. Photophosphorylation and the chemiosmotic perspective
André T. Jagendorf
53. Protons, proteins and ATP
Wolfgang Junge
54. On why thylakoids energize ATP formation using either delocalized or localized proton gradients — a Ca
Richard A. Dilley
IX.. Techniques and Applications
55. The stopped-flow method and chemical intermediates in enzyme reactions — a personal essay
Britton Chance
56. The chequered history of the development and use of simultaneous equations for the accurate determination of chlorophylls
Robert J. Porra
57. The contribution of photosynthetic pigments to the development of biochemical separation methods: 1900–1980
Per-Åke Albertsson
58. On some aspects of photosynthesis revealed by photoacoustic studies: a critical evaluation
René Delosme
59. The history of photosynthetic thermoluminescence
Imre Vass
60. Trails of green alga hydrogen research — from Hans Gaffron to new frontiers
Anastasios Melis, Thomas Happe
61. Engineering the chloroplast encoded proteins of Chlamydomonas
Ling Xiong, Richard T. Sayre
62. Pictorial demonstrations of photosynthesis
Roger P. Hangarter, Howard Gest
X.. Biogenesis and Membrane Architecture
63. Membrane biogenesis in anoxygenic photosynthetic prokaryotes
Gerhart Drews, Robert A. Niederman
64. Chloroplast structure: from chlorophyll granules to supra-molecular architecture of thylakoid membranes
L. Andrew Staehelin
65. Changing concepts about the distribution of Photosystems I and II between grana-appressed and stroma-exposed thylakoid membranes
Jan M. Anderson
66. Chloroplasts in living cells and the string-of-grana concept of chloroplast structure revisited
S. G. Wildman, Ann M. Hirsch, S. J. Kirchanski, Donald Spencer
67. From chloroplasts to chaperones: how one thing led to another
R. John Ellis
XI.. Reductive and Assimilatory Processes
68. ‘Every dogma has its day’: a personal look at carbon metabolism in photosynthetic bacteria
John Ormerod
69. Research on carbon dioxide fixation in photosynthetic microorganisms (1971-present)
F. Robert Tabita
70. Nitrogen fixation by photosynthetic bacteria
Paul W. Ludden, Gary P. Roberts
71. Following the path of carbon in photosynthesis: a personal story
Andrew A. Benson
72. Mapping the carbon reduction cycle: a personal retrospective
James A. Bassham
73. Chloroplasts in envelopes: CO
David Alan Walker
74. Along the trail from Fraction I protein to Rubisco (
Sam G. Wildman
75. The discovery of Rubisco activase — yet another story of serendipity
Archie R. Portis, Michael E. Salvucci
76. The ferredoxin/thioredoxin system: from discovery to molecular structures and beyond
Bob B. Buchanan1, P. Schürmann, Ricardo A. Wolosiuk, Jean-Pierre Jacquot
77. How is ferredoxin-NADP reductase involved in the NADP photoreduction of chloroplasts?
Masateru Shin
78. C
Marshall D. Hatch
79. Crassulacean acid metabolism photosynthesis: ‘working the night shift’
Clanton C. Black, C. Barry Osmond
XII.. Transport, Regulation and Adaptation
80. Three decades in transport business: studies of metabolite transport in chloroplasts — a personal perspective
Hans-Walter Heldt
81. The present model for chlororespiration
Pierre Bennoun
82. Affixing the O to Rubisco: discovering the source of photorespiratory glycolate and its regulation
William L. Ogren
83. Linking the xanthophyll cycle with thermal energy dissipation
Barbara Demmig-Adams
84. Photoinhibition — a historical perspective
Noam Adir, Hagit Zer, Susana Shochat, Itzhak Ohad
85. A molecular understanding of complementary chromatic adaptation
Arthur R. Grossman
86. Anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria from extreme environments
Michael T. Madigan
87. Light-induced behavioral responses (‘phototaxis’) in prokaryotes
Judith P. Armitage, Klaas J. Hellingwerf
XIII.. Genetics
88. The early history of the genetics of photosynthetic bacteria: a personal account
Barry L. Marrs
89. Photosynthesis genes and their expression in
Samuel Kaplan
90. Regulation of photosystem synthesis in
Carl Bauer
91. Photosynthesis research: advances through molecular biology — the beginnings, 1975–1980s and on. . .
Lawrence Bogorad
92. The three genomes of Chlamydomonas
Jean-David Rochaix
93. History of chloroplast genomics
Masahiro Sugiura
94. Gene-targeted and site-directed mutagenesis of photosynthesis genes in cyanobacteria
Sergey V. Shestakov
XIV.. Evolution
95. Thinking about the evolution of photosynthesis
John M. Olson, Robert E. Blankenship
96. Evolutionary relationships among photosynthetic bacteria
Radhey S. Gupta
97. On the natural selection and evolution of the aerobic phototrophic bacteria
J. Thomas Beatty
98. Prochlorophyta — a matter of class distinctions
Ralph A. Lewin
99. The archaeal concept and the world it lives in: a retrospective
Carl R. Woese
XV.. Laboratories and National Perspectives
100. The Laboratory of Photosynthesis and its successors at Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Yaroslav Kouchkovsky
101. Photosynthesis and the Charles F. Kettering Research Laboratory
Leo P. Vernon
102. Chlorophyll isolation, structure and function: major landmarks of the early history of research in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
Alexander A. Krasnovsky
103. Studies of chlorophyll biosynthesis in Russia
Olga B. Belyaeva
104. The beginnings of research on biophysics of photosynthesis and initial contributions made by Russian scientists to its development
Alexander Borisov
105. Photosynthesis research in Greece: a historical snapshot (1960–2001)
George C. Papageorgiou
106. Photosynthesis research in India: transition from yield physiology into molecular biology
Agepati S. Raghavendra, Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane, Prasanna Mohanty
107. Photosynthesis research in the People’s Republic of China
Ting-Yun Kuang, Chunhe Xu, Liang-Bi Li, Yun-Kang Shen
XVI.. Retrospectives
108. A list of personal perspectives with selected quotations, along with lists of tributes, historical notes, Nobel and Kettering awards related to photosynthesis
Govindjee, David W. Krogmann
109. Passage of a young Indian physical chemist through the world of photosynthesis research at Urbana, Illinois, in the 1960s: a personal essay
Ashish K. Ghosh
110. The conference at Airlie House in 1963
Hans Joachim Rurainski
111. A list of photosynthesis conferences and of edited books in photosynthesis
Govindjee
Keywords: Life Sciences, Plant Sciences, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Physiology, Cell Biology, Microbiology, Biophysics/Biomedical Physics
- Author(s)
- Allen, John F.
- Beatty, J. Thomas
- Gest, Howard
- Govindjee
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2005
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration
- Page amount
- 1344 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781402033247