Photosynthesis Research for Food, Fuel and the Future

Symposium 01. Type I Reaction Centres

1. Deconvolution Analysis of Photoacoustic Waves of Electron Transfer in Photosystem I of menG Null Mutant of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Xuejing Hou, Lien-Yang Chou, Harvey J. M. Hou

2. Towards Uncovering the Energetics of Secondary Electron Transfer Reactions in Photosystem I
Stefano Santabarbara, Fabrice Rappaport, Kevin Redding

3. Supercomplex Organizations and Evolution of Photosystems I and II (Anabaena sp. PCC 7120, Cyanophora Paradoxa and Cyanidioschyzon Merolae)
Mai Watanabe, Hisako Kubota, Hajime Wada, Rei Narikawa, Masahiko Ikeuchi

4. 3D Model of PSI-LHCI Supercomplexes from Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii

Venkateswarlu Yadavalli, Chandramouli Malleda, Rajagopal Subramanyam

5. Reaction of A1-menaquinone in Type I Reaction Center of Heliobacterium Modesticaldum at Cryogenic Temperature
Toru Kondo, Masahiro Matsuoka, Chihiro Azai, Hiroyuki Mino, Hirozo Oh-oka, Shigeru Itoh

Symposium 02. Type II Reaction Centres

6. Calculation of Connectivity of Photosynthetic Units in Intact Cells of Rhodobacter Sphaeroides

Péter Maróti, Emese Asztalos

7. Oxygen-Dependent Production and Arrangements of the Photosynthetic Pigments in Intact Cells of Rhodobacter Sphaeroides

Emese Asztalos, Mariann Kis, Péter Maróti

8. Electronic Structure Studies of the Spin Density Distribution of the QA Plastosemiquinone Free Radical of Photosystem II
Tzu-Jen Lin, Patrick J. O’Malley

9. Spectral Properties of the Rhodobacter Sphaeroides Mutant Photo-Reaction Center with Double Amino Acid Substitution I(L177)H+H(L173)L
Tatiana Y. Fufina, Lyudmila G. Vasilieva, Ravil A. Khatypov, Vladimir A. Shuvalov

10. Spectroelectrochemical Determination of the Redox Potentials of Pheophytin a and Primary Quinone QA in Photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus Elongatus

Yuki Kato, Tadao Shibamoto, Akinori Oda, Miwa Sugiura, Tadashi Watanabe

11. PsbP does Not Require LHCII to Bind the PSII Core
Cristina Pagliano, Fabiana Chimirri, Guido Saracco, James Barber

12. Compositional and Structural Analyses of the Photosystem II Isolated from the Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon Merolae

Joanna Kargul, Marko Boehm, Nina Morgner, Carol V. Robinson, Peter J. Nixon, James Barber

13. The Position and Orientation of Active Carotenoid in Photosystem II
Asako Kawamori, Hiroyuki Mino, Jianren Shen

14. Functional Roles of the Amino- and Carboxyl-Regions of PsbP Protein in Photosystem II
Shusuke Kakiuchi, Kentaro Ifuku, Megumi Tomita, Kunio Ido, Takumi Noguchi, Fumihiko Sato

15. A New Value for the Redox Potential of Cytochrome c550 in Photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus Elongatus

Fernando Guerrero, Arezki Sedoud, Diana Kirilovsky, A. William Rutherford, Mercedes Roncel, José M. Ortega

16. The Polyhydroxybutyrate Pathway Promoters Can Drive Foreign Gene Expression under Circadian Rhythm in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Ryan E. Hill, Julian J. Eaton-Rye

17. Removal of the PsbT Subunit of Photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 Causes QA
− Oxidation to be Blocked by Dimethyl-p-Benzoquinone
Robert D. Fagerlund, Roger Young, Hao Luo, Fiona K. Bentley, Julian J. Eaton-Rye

18. Metal and Serine Proteases in the Crude Photosystem II Particles from a Diatom, Chaetoceros Gracilis

Ryo Nagao, Eri Noguchi, Tatsuya Tomo, Isao Enami, Masahiko Ikeuchi

19. Structure-Function Studies of the Photosystem II Extrinsic Subunits PsbQ and PsbP from the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Simon A. Jackson, Robert D. Fagerlund, Mark G. Hinds, Sigurd M. Wilbanks, Julian J. Eaton-Rye

20. Coherent Electron Transfer in Reaction Centers of YM210L and YM210L/HL168L Mutants of Rba. Sphaeroides

Andrei G. Yakovlev, Lyudmila G. Vasilieva, Tatyana I. Khmelnitskaya, Valentina A. Shkuropatova, Anatoli Ya. Shkuropatov, Vladimir A. Shuvalov

21. Coordination Changes of Carboxyl Ligands at the QAFeQB Triad in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers Studied by Density-Functional Theory
Petko Chernev, Ivelina Zaharieva, Holger Dau, Michael Haumann

Symposium 03. Light Harvesting Anaerobic Systems

22. Strontium Ions are Functionally Replaceable with Calcium Ions in the Light-Harvesting 1 Reaction Center Core Complex from Thermophilic Purple Sulfur Bacterium Thermochromatium Tepidum

Yukihiro Kimura, Yuta Inada, Longjiang Yu, Takashi Ohno, Zhengyu Wang

23. Cell-Free Expression of the Lhcb1 Protein of Arabidopsis Thaliana

Anjali Pandit, Tineke Ruijter, Riekje Brandsma, Jaap Brouwer, Huub J. M. Groot, Willem J. Grip

24. Optimal Mutual Orientational Ordering of Q

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Transition Dipoles of Adjacent Subantennae Pigments in the Superantenna of the Photosynthetic Green Bacterium Chloroflexus Aurantiacus. Theoretical and Experimental Studies
Andrey Yakovlev, Vladimir Novoderezhkin, Alexandra Taisova, Anastasiya Zobova, Zoya Fetisova

25. CsmA Protein is Associated with BChl a in the Baseplate Subantenna of Chlorosomes of the Green Photosynthetic Bacterium Oscillochloris Trichoides Belonging to the Family Oscillochloridaceae

Alexandra S. Taisova, Anastasiya V. Zobova, Eugeney P. Lukashev, Nataliya V. Fedorova, Zoya G. Fetisova

26. Effects of Anaerobic Conditions on Photosynthetic Units of Acaryochloris Marina

Yuankui Lin, Ben Crossett, Min Chen

Symposium 04. Light Harvesting Aerobic Systems

27. Closed Reaction Centers of PS1 Still Can Perform the First Steps of Charge Separation. A Mid IR Pump Probe Study with fs Resolution
Andreas D. Stahl, Mariangela Donato, Ivo Stokkum, Rienk Grondelle, Marie Louise Groot

28. Modulation of Chlorophyll b Biosynthesis and Photosynthesis by Overexpression of Chlorophyllide a Oxygenase (CAO) in Tobacco
Ajaya K. Biswal, Gopal K. Pattanayak, Sadhu Leelavathi, Vanga S. Reddy, Govindjee, Baishnab C. Tripathy

29. All of α-Carotene and Its Derivatives Have a Sole Chirality?
Shinichi Takaichi, Akio Murakami, Mari Mochimaru

30. Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy of Synechocystis WT Cells — Variation in Photosynthetic Performance of Individual Cells in Various Strains of sp. PCC 6803
Tünde Tóth, Volha V. Chukhutsina, Sashka B. Krumova, Zoltan Gombos, Herbert Amerongen

31. Isolation of Intact Phycobilisomes in Low Salt: a Novel Method for Purifying Phycobilisomes by Mild Cross-Linking
Liron David, Noam Adir

32. Differential Association of the Light-Harvesting Proteins (FCPs) with PSI and PSII in the Small Brown Tide Alga Aureococcus Anophagefferens

Meriem Alami, Beverley R. Green

33. Non-Linear Spectroscopy of Carotenoid-Chlorophyll Interactions in Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Complexes
Alexander Betke, Klaus Teuchner, Bernd Voigt, Heiko Lokstein

34. Three Step Dissociation and Covalent Stabilization of Phycobilisome
Qiang Wang

Symposium 05. Bioenergetics of Photosynthetic Electron Flow

35. Ferredoxin:NADP+ Oxidoreductase Associated with Cytochrome b

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f Complex is Highly Active in Plastoquinone Reduction
Renata Szymańska, Jolanta Pierścińska, Ireneusz Ślesak, Jerzy Kruk

36. The Mutation E242K in the Chloroplast ATP Synthase Gamma Subunit Increases the Inhibitory Binding of the Epsilon Subunit without Changing the Apparent Redox Potential of the Regulatory Dithiol
Kim K. Colvert, Fei Gao, Daxin Zheng, Shyam Mehta, Mark L. Richter

37. Analysis of Dark Drops, Dark-Induced Changes in Chlorophyll Fluorescence during the Recording of the OJIP Transient
Vasilij Goltsev, Maria Gurmanova, Margarita Kouzmanova, Ivan Yordanov, Scheng Qiang, Alison Pentland, Neil Wilson, Shiguo Chen, Ivelina Zaharieva, Reto Jörg Strasser

38. Photosynthetic Measurements with the Idea Spec: an Integrated Diode Emitter Array Spectrophotometer/Fluorometer
Christopher C. Hall, Jeffrey Cruz, Magnus Wood, Robert Zegarac, Dustin DeMars, Joel Carpenter, Atsuko Kanazawa, David Kramer

39. Crystal Structure of Ferredoxin-NAD(P)+ Reductase from the Green Sulfur Bacterium Chlorobaculum Tepidum

Daisuke Seo, Norifumi Muraki, Tomoo Shiba, Takeshi Sakurai, Genji Kurisu

40. A Potential Function for the γ2 Subunit (atpC2) of the Chloroplast ATP Synthase
Kaori Kohzuma, Cristina Bosco, Atsuko Kanazawa, David M. Kramer, Jörg Meurer

41. The Contribution of Light-Dependent Bicarbonate Uptake in Thylakoid Membrane Energization
E. K. Zolotareva, O. V. Polishchuk, A. V. Semenikhin, E. B. Onoiko

42. Activation of Alternative Electron Transfer in PS II by Inhibition of Proton Transfer at the Acceptor Side
O. V. Polishchuk, N. M. Topchiy, V. V. Podorvanov

Symposium 06. Mechanisms of Water Oxidation

43. Analysis of S2,3-states Decay Processes: Focused on Cyanobacteria
Jiri Jablonsky, Dusan Lazar

44. Energetics, Kinetics and Mechanism of Oxidative Water Splitting in Photosynthesis
G. Renger

45. Charge Equilibrium Reactions S2 and S3 States of Photosystem II with Cyt b559 and Tyrosine YD

Yashar Feyziyev, Stenbjörn Styring

46. Molecular Dynamics Simulations of a Putative H+ Pathway in Photosystem II
Felix M. Ho

47. Catalytic Cooperativity of Mono-Manganese and Tri-Manganese Clusters for Water-Splitting and Oxygen-Evolving Reaction in Photosystem II: Chemical Mechanistic Insight
Masami Kusunoki

48. Direct Detection of Oxygen Ligands to the Mn4Ca Complex in Photosystem II by X-ray Emission Spectroscopy
Jan Kern, Henning Schroeder, Megan Shelby, Yulia Pushkar, Benedikt Lasalle, Pieter Glatzel, Vittal K. Yachandra, Uwe Bergmann, Junko Yano

49. Water Oxidation in Photosystem II: Energetics and Kinetics of Intermediates Formation in the S2→S3 and S3→S0 Transitions Monitored by Delayed Chlorophyll Fluorescence
Ivelina Zaharieva, Markus Grabolle, Petko Chernev, Holger Dau

50. An EPR and ENDOR Spectroscopic Investigation of the Ca2+-Depleted Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II
Thomas Lohmiller, Nicholas Cox, Jihu Su, Johannes Messinger, Wolfgang Lubitz

51. Role of Protons in Photosynthetic Water Oxidation: pH Influence on the Rate Constants of the S-state Transitions and Hypotheses on the S2→S3 Transition
László Gerencsér, Holger Dau

52. Electronic Structure of the CaMn4O5 Cluster in the PSII System Refined to the 1.9 Å X-ray Resolution. Possible Mechanisms of Photosynthetic Water Splitting
S. Yamanaka, K. Kanda, H. Isobe, K. Nakata, Y. Umena, K. Kawakami, J. R. Shen, N. Kamiya, M. Okumura, T. Takada, H. Nakamura, K. Yamaguchi

Symposium 07. Mimicking Photosynthetic Catalysis

53. The Structure of a Water-oxidizing Cobalt Oxide Film and Comparison to the Photosynthetic Manganese Complex
Marcel Risch, Katharina Klingan, Anna Fischer, Holger Dau

54. Catalytic Mechanism of a Bioinspired Mn-oxo Olgomer/Tungston Oxide System in Water Splitting and Its Relevance to PS II Water Oxidation
Wanshu He, Lien-Yang Chou, Ndi Geh, Robert Mulkern, Harvey J. M. Hou

55. An Artificial Water-Oxidizing Co Electro-Catalyst: Structure and Mechanism by in Situ X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
Junko Yano, Vittal K. Yachandra, Matthew W. Kanan, Yogesh Surendranath, Mirca Dinca, Daniel G. Nocera

Symposium 08. Regulation of Electron Transfer

56. Quantification of Cyclic Electron Flow in Spinach Leaf Discs
Jiancun Kou, Shunichi Takahashi, Riichi Oguchi, Murray R. Badger, Wah Soon Chow

57. The Ancient Cyanobacterium Gloeobacter Violaceus PCC 7421 is Capable of State Transitions and Blue-Light Induced Fluorescence Quenching
Gábor Bernát, Ulrich Schreiber, Igor N. Stadnichuk, Matthias Rögner, Friederike Koenig

58. Screening of Novel Subunits of Chloroplastic NAD(P)H Dehydrogenase in Arabidopsis
Noriko Ishikawa, Atsushi Takabayashi, Satoshi Ishida, Yasushi Hano, Kentaro Ifuku, Fumihiko Sato, Tsuyoshi Endo

59. Regulatory Systems that Quantitatively Alter Two Anionic Lipids of Chloroplasts in Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii upon Sulfur-Starvation
Koichi Sugimoto, Mikio Tsuzuki, Norihiro Sato

60. Do State Transitions Control CEF1 in Higher Plants?
Deserah D. Strand, Aaron K. Livingston, David M. Kramer

61. Study on Post-Steady-State Chlorophyll a Fluorescence Kinetics of Plants
Chuanfei Zhong, Xiaoying Wu, Zhikui Gao, Yuntao Zhang, Guixia Wang, Jing Dong, Lina Wang, Linlin Chang, Rongfu Gao

62. The Ancient Cyanobacterium Gloeobacter Violaceus PCC 7421 is Capable of State Transitions and Blue-Light Induced Fluorescence Quenching
Gábor Bernát, Ulrich Schreiber, Igor N. Stadnichuk, Matthias Rögner, Friederike Koenig

Symposium 09. Control of the Calvin-Benson Cycle

63. Relationship Between Photosynthesis and Respiration in Leaves Using 13C/12C Isotope Labelling
Salvador Nogués

64. Photosynthetic Labeling and Partitioning of Major Sugars and Monoterpenes in Leaves of Plantago Lanceolata L
Ildiko Szucs, Mayhery Escobar, Demos Leonardos, Sarah Crain, Bernard Grodzinski

Symposium 10. CO2 Concentrating Mechanisms

65. The Periplasmic Carbonic Anhydrase, CAH1, is Absent in the Sequenced Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii Strain, CC-503
Bratati Mukherjee, Trang T. Pham, Yunbing Ma, Tiffany A. Simms, James V. Moroney

66. Transcriptional Analysis of the Three Phosphoglycolate Phosphatase Genes in Wild Type and the pgp1 Mutant of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii

Yunbing Ma, Megan M. Hartman, James V. Moroney

Symposium 11. C3, C4 and CAM and Genetic Engineering

67. Effects of 1-butanol, Neomycin, and Calcium on the Photosynthetic Characteristics of pepc Transgenic Rice
Xia Li, Chao Wang, Chenggang Ren

68. Some Physicochemical Properties of Carbonic Anhydrase in Mesembryanthemum Crystallinum Leaves
Sh Bayramov, T. Orujova, H. Babayev, N. Guliyev

Symposium 12. T Regulation of Photosynthetic Gene Expression

69. GTP-Binding Proteins are Potential Messengers for Photosygnal Transduction in High Plants
Karim Gasimov

70. Expression of PEPC Gene, Lipid Content and Photosynthesis in Anabaena 7120
Lijun Hou, Xiaohui Jia, Dingji Shi, Xuekui Wang

71. Unique Central Carbon Metabolic Pathways and Novel Enzymes in Phototrophic Bacteria Revealed by Integrative Genomics, 13C-based Metabolomics and Fluxomics
Kuo-Hsiang Tang, Xueyang Feng, Anindita Bandyopadhyay, Himadri B. Pakrasi, Yinjie J. Tang, Robert E. Blankenship

72. Regulation of the Carbon and Nitrogen Balance by a Plastidic Invertase in Arabidopsis

Takanori Maruta, Kumi Otori, Tomoki Tabuchi, Noriaki Tanabe, Masahiro Tamoi, Shigeru Shigeoka

73. Characterization of a pH-Sensitive Photosystem II Mutant in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Tina C. Summerfield, Roger Young, Louis A. Sherman, Julian J. Eaton-Rye

74. Solar-Powered Production of Biofuels and Other Petroleum Substitutes by Cyanobacteria: Stoichiometries of Reducing Equivalents and Chemical Energy, and Energy Conversion Efficiency
Wim Vermaas

75. D1′—a New Member of D1 Protein Family in Cyanobacteria
Ciprian Chis, Abdulah Mahboob, Sergey Vassilieev, Adriana Bica, Loredana Peca, Doug Brouce, Eva-Mari Aro, Cosmin Ionel Sicora

76. Photosynthesis and Expression of Circadium Gene KaiC in Synechococcus

Xiaohui Jia, Carl H. Johnson, Dingji Shi, Xiaoyan Wang, Guisen Du

Symposium 13. Type I Reaction Centres

77. Prediction of Cis Regulatory Elements in the Genome of Synechococcus Elongatus PCC 6301
P. Parvati Sai Arun, M. Subhashini, C. H. Santhosh, P. Sankara Krishna, Jogadhenu S. S. Prakash

Symposium 14. Biogenesis of Photosynthetic Apparatus

78. Chloroplast Biogenesis — Preliminary Structural and Proteomic Study
Lucja Rudowska, Radoslaw Mazur, Maciej Garstka, Agnieszka Mostowska

79. Protochlorophyllide Forms in Etiolated Seedlings of Photoreceptor Mutants of Arabidopsis Thaliana — Is Chlorophyll Biosynthesis Controlled by Cooperation between Phytochromes and Phototropins?
Beata Myśliwa-Kurdziel, Elżbieta Turek, Przemysław Malec

80. Blue-Native Page Analysis Validates Heterogeneity in the Thylakoids of Synechocystis 6803

Rachna Agarwal, Andrea Matros, Michael Melzer, Hans-Peter Mock, Jayashree Krishna Sainis

81. Spatial and Temporal Regulation of Chloroplast Development in Arabidopsis Root
Koichi Kobayashi, Tatsuru Masuda

82. The Lattice-Like Structure Observed by Vipp1-GFP in Arabidopsis Chloroplasts
Lingang Zhang, Yusuke Kato, Koji Saigo, Ute C. Vothknecht, Wataru Sakamoto

83. State Transition Mechanism in Arabidopsis Thaliana: Biophysical and Proteomic Studies
Sreedhar Nellaepalli, Ottó Zsiros, László Kovács, Yadavalli Venkateswarlu, Mekala Nageswara Rao, Prasanna Mohanty, Rajagopal Subramanyam

Symposium 15. Assembly of Photosynthetic Protein Complexes

84. On the Localization of the Synthesis of Photosynthetic Proteins
James Uniacke, Oussama Rifai, Matthew Peters, Marco Schottkowski, William Zerges

85. Function of sll1906, a Member of the Bacteriochlorophyll Delivery Family, in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Cheng-I Daniel Yao, Wim Vermaas

86. Functional Analysis of PsbP-Like Protein 1 (PPL1) in Arabidopsis
Shintaro Matsui, Seiko Ishihara, Kunio Ido, Kentaro Ifuku, Fumihiko Sato

87. Insertion of a Rigid Structural Element into the Regulatory Domain of the Chloroplast F1-ATPase Gamma Subunit for Rotational Studies
Stephanie C. Bishop, Shyam Mehta, Kim K. Colvert, Daxin Zheng, Mark L. Richter, Cindy L. Berrie, Fei Gao

88. Functional Analysis of PsbR in PsbP Binding to Photosystem II
Kunio Ido, Kentaro Ifuku, Fumihiko Sato

89. Functional Analysis of the Nitrogenase-Like Protochlorophyllide Reductase Encoded in Chloroplast Genome Using Cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya Boryana

Haruki Yamamoto, Shohei Kurumiya, Rie Ohashi, Yuichi Fujita

90. Solution Structure and Physiological Requirements for Psb27 in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Peter D. Mabbitt, Gilles J. Rautureau, Catherine L. Day, Mark G. Hinds, Sigurd M. Wilbanks, Julian J. Eaton-Rye

91. Isolation of Complete Chloroplasts from Chromera Velia — the Photosynthetic Relative of Parasitic Apicomplexa
Hao Pan, Jan Šlapeta, Dee Carter, Min Chen

Symposium 16. Photoprotection, Photoinhibition and Dynamics

92. Inhibition of Lipid Peroxidation by Plastoquinol and Other Prenyllipids
Jolanta Gruszka, Beatrycze Nowicka, Jerzy Kruk

93. Tenuazonic Acid, a Novel Natural PSII Inhibitor, Impacts on Photosynthetic Activity by Occupying the QB-Binding Site and Inhibiting Forward Electron Flow
Shiguo Chen, Reto J. Strasser, Sheng Qiang, Govindjee

94. Yellow Vine Syndrome of American Cranberry: a Mechanistic Assessment
Lien-Yang Chou, Wanshu He, Xuejing Hou, Joy Patel, Aaron Rasposo, Harvey J. M. Hou

95. Light Acclimation of Triple Inactivation Strain of Group 2 Sigma Factors in Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803
Susanne Rantamäki, Taina Tyystjärvi

96. Gradients of Photoinhibition in the Interior of a Leaf Induced by Photoinhibition Lights of Different Colors
Riichi Oguchi, Peter Douwstra, Takashi Fujita, Wah Soon Chow, Ichiro Terashima

97. Time-Resolved Fluorescence of Photosystem I in Vivo: Global and Target Analysis
V. V. Chukhutsina, L. Tian, G. Ajlani, H. Amerongen

98. Estimation of the Relative Sizes of the Two NPQ-Associated Dissipations in Rice
Satoshi Ishida, Fumihiko Sato, Tsuyoshi Endo

99. Molecular Characterization of Thylakoid Membrane-Bound Ascorbate Peroxidase in Oryza Sativa (Rice)
Suqin Zhu, Yanhong Chen, Rong Zhou, Benhua Ji

100. Effect of Lipids on Violaxanthin and Diadinoxanthin De-Epoxidation
Dariusz Latowski, Susann Schaller, Joanna Grzyb, Reimund Goss, Kazimierz Strzałka

101. The Electron Transport in psbS-Silenced Rice
Ken-ichi Morita, Satoshi Ishida, Ko Shimamoto, Fumihiko Sato, Tsuyoshi Endo

102. Photoprotective Function of Foliar Betacyanin in Leaves of Amaranthus Cruentus under Drought Stress
T. Nakashima, T. Araki, O. Ueno

103. Presence of Flexible Non-Photochemical Quenching in Cryptophytes (Rhodomonas Salina)
Radek Kaňa, Eva Kotabová, Ondřej Prášil

104. The Slow S to M Fluorescence Rise is Missing in the RpaC Mutant of Synechocystis sp. (PCC 6803)
Radek Kaňa, Ondřej Komárek, Eva Kotabová, George C. Papageorgiou, Govindjee, Ondřej Prášil

105. Significance of Protein Ordering in Grana Thylakoids for Light-Harvesting by Photosystem II and Protein Mobility
Stefanie Tietz, Chris Kinzel, Robert Yarbrough, Helmut Kirchhoff

106. Moderate Heat Pretreatment Alleviates the Inhibition of Photosystem II Activity Caused by the Response of Cyanobacterial Cells to High Red Light
Zhongxian Lv, Lanzhen Wei, Quanxi Wang, Hualing Mi, Weimin Ma

107. Ascorbate Alleviates Donor-Side Induced Photoinhibition by Acting as Alternative Electron Donor to Photosystem II
Szilvia Z. Tóth, Valéria Nagy, Jos Thomas Puthur, László Kovács, Győző Garab

108. Involvement of Chlorophyll a Fluorescence Analyses for Identification of Sensitiveness of the Photosynthetic Apparatus to High Temperature in Selected Wheat Genotypes
Marian Brestic, Marek Zivcak, Katarina Olsovska, Jana Repkova

109. Lichens Assist the Drought-Induced Fluorescence Quenching of Their Photobiont Green Algae Through Arabitol
Makiko Kosugi, Akihisa Miyake, Yasuhiro Kasino, Yutaka Shibata, Kazuhiko Satoh, Shigeru Itoh

110. FLIM (Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy) of Avocado Leaves during Slow Fluorescence Transient (the P to S Decline and the S to M Rise)
Yichun Chen, Shizue Matsubara, Rosanna Caliandro, Govindjee, Robert M. Clegg

111. Improving the Photosynthetic Productivity and Light Utilization in Algal Biofuel Systems: Metabolic and Physiological Characterization of a Potentially Advantageous Mutant of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii

Y. Zhou, L. C. Schideman, Govindjee, S. I. Rupassara, M. J. Seufferheld

Symposium 17. Perception of Environmental Stress and Acclimation

112. Characterization of Energy Transfer Processes and Flash Oxygen Yields of Thylakoid Membranes Isolated from Resurrection Plant Haberlea Rhodopensis Subjected to Different Extent of Desiccation
M. Velitchkova, D. Lazarova, G. Mihailova, D. Stanoeva, V. Dolchinkova, K. Georgieva

113. Effect of Light on the Photosynthetic Activity during Desiccation of the Resurrection Plant Haberlea Rhodopensis

Katya Georgieva, Snejana Doncheva, Gergana Mihailova, Snejana Petkova

114. Effect of Desiccation of the Resurrection Plant Haberlea Rhodopensis at High Temperature on the Photochemical Activity of PSI and PSII
Gergana Mihailova, Snejana Petkova, Detelin Stefanov, Katya Georgieva

115. Chloroplast Structure under High Light Conditions
Radosław Mazur, Łucja Rudowska, Borys Kierdaszuk, Agnieszka Mostowska, Maciej Garstka

116. Effect of Salinity on Chlorophill Content and Activity of Photosystems of Wheat Genotypes
Ibrahim Azizov, Mayaxanum Khanisheva, Ulker Ibrahimova

117. Identification of Dreb 1 Genes Involved in Drought Tolerance in Wheat (Triticum L.)
Irada M. Huseynova, Samira M. Rustamova, Alamdar Ch. Mammadov

118. Detection of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus in Azerbaijan and Partial Characterization of Biochemical Properties of Naturally Infected Plants
Irada Huseynova, Alamdar Mammadov, Nargiz Sultanova

119. Antioxidant Enzymes and Functional State of PS II in Plants Grown under Various Radium (226Ra) Concentrations
Saftar Y. Suleymanov, Konul H. Bayramova, Samira M. Rustamova, Elmira H. Maharramova, Irada M. Huseynova

120. O-J-I-P Fluorescence Rise Kinetics Reveals Differential Cold Acclimation Capability in Sugarcane Varieties Following Exposure to Frost
Philippus D. R. Heerden

121. Antioxidant Defence System and Chloroplasts Photochemical Characteristics of Wheat Genotypes Subjected to Water Stress
Samira M. Rustamova, Hasan H. Babayev, Irada M. Huseynova

122. Phosphorylation of PSII Proteins in Low Light Grown Maize in Response to the Pb Ions
Wasilewska Wioleta, Zienkiewicz Maksymilian, Fristedt Rikard, Vener V. Alexander, Romanowska Elzbieta

123. A Potential Function for the γ2 Subunit (atpC2) of the Chloroplast ATP Synthase
Kaori Kohzuma, Cristina Bosco, Atsuko Kanazawa, David M. Kramer, Jörg Meurer

124. The Role of sll1558 and sll1496 Genes under Acid Stress Conditions in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Mamoru Sambe, Shuichi Kitayama, Atsushi Moriyama, Junji Uchiyama, Hisataka Ohta

125. Comparative Photosynthetic Analyses of Three Widely Used Arabidopsis Ecotypes
Lan Yin, Rikard Fristedt, Alexander V. Vener, Cornelia Spetea

126. Thallium Induces Morphological Changes in the Photosynthetic Apparatus of Synechocystis sp. PCC6803
Motohide Aoki, Hiroe Matsumoto, Tatsuya Takahashi, Kazuya Sato, Hidetoshi Kumata, Kitao Fujiwara

127. The Physiological Role of Arabidopsis Thylakoid Phosphate Transporter PHT4;1
Patrik M. Karlsson, Sonia Irigoyen, Wayne K. Versaw, Cornelia Spetea

128. Involvement of slr0081, a Two-Component Signal-Transduction System Response Regulator, in Acid Stress Tolerance in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Yu Tanaka, Mayuko Kimura, Atsushi Moriyama, Yuko Kubo, Mamoru Sambe, Junji Uchiyama, Hisataka Ohta

129. Characterization of the ABC Transporter Gene slr1045 Involved in Acid-stress Tolerance of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Hiroko Tahara, Sachiko Fukai, Mamoru Sambe, Miho Kobayashi, Junji Uchiyama, Hisataka Ohta

130. Psbo Degradation by Deg Proteases under Reducing Conditions
Irma N. Roberts, Helder Miranda, Lâm Xuân Tâm, Thomas Kieselbach, Christiane Funk

131. Methylmethionine (Vitamin U) Alleviates Negative Effects of Chemical Stressors on Photosynthesis of the Green Alga Scenedesmus Opoliensis

Laszlo Fodorpataki, Zsolt Gy Keresztes, Csaba Bartha, Attila L. Marton, Szabolcs Barna

132. Effect of Ozone on Photosynthesis and Seed Yield of Sensitive (S156) and Resistant (R123) Phaseolus Vulgaris L. Genotypes in Open-Top Chambers
Cornelius C. W. Scheepers, Reto J. Strasser, Gert H. J. Krüger

133. SO2-Drought Interaction on Crop Yield, Photosynthesis and Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Soybean (Glycine Max)
E. Heyneke, A. J. Strauss, P. D. R. Heerden, R. J. Strasser, G. H. J. Krüger

134. UDP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase Responsible for Sulfolipid Synthesis in a Green Alga Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii

Atsushi Sato, Koichi Sugimoto, Mikio Tsuzuki, Norihiro Sato

135. Essential Role of Digalactosyldiacylglycerol for Photosynthetic Growth in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 under High-Temperature Stress
Naoki Mizusawa, Shinya Sakata, Isamu Sakurai, Hisako Kubota, Naoki Sato, Hajime Wada

136.
De Novo Biosynthesis of Fatty Acids is Important for Maintenance of Photochemical Activity under Low Temperature Environments in Arabidopsis
Tsuneaki Takami, Masaru Shibata, Yoshichika Kobayashi, Toshiharu Shikanai

137. Critical Temperature Derived from the Selected Chlorophyll a Fluorescence Parameters of Indigenous Vegetable Species of South Africa Treated with High Temperature
Marek Zivcak, Katarina Olsovska, Marian Brestic, Margaretha M. Slabbert

138. Photosynthetic Characteristics of Arctic Plants
Yameng Li, Yuxin Jiao, Qi Zhao

139. The Evolution of Far-Red Light Perception in Acaryochloris Marina, a Chlorophyll d-Containing Cyanobacterium
Zane Duxbury, Robert D. Willows, Penelope M. Smith, Min Chen

140. Effects of Ultraviolet-B Radiation on Primary Photophysical Process in Photosystem II: a Fluorescence Spectrum Analysis
Xiao Liu, Ming Yue, Qianrua Ji, Junfang He

141. Shape-Changes of the Fast Chlorophyll a Fluorescence Transient (OJIP) and Antioxidative Enzymes in High Salt Tolerant Mangrove Trees of Bruguiera Gymnorrhiza

Ananth Bandhu Das, Reto J. Strasser, Girish Kumar Rasineni, Prasanna Mohanty

142. Knock-out of Low CO2-Induced slr0006 Gene in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: Consequences on Growth and Proteome
Dalton Carmel, Natalia Battchikova, Maija Holmström, Paula Mulo, Eva Mari Aro

143. Acid Stress Responsive Genes, slr0967 and sll0939, are Directly Involved in Low-pH Tolerance of Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803
Hisataka Ohta, Yuta Kobayashi, Atsushi Moriyama, Yuko Kubo, Mamoru Sambe, Yousuke Shibata, Yohei Haseyama, Yuka Yoshino, Junji Uchiyama

144. Studies on the Effects of N and P on the Competition of Flaveria Bidentis (L.) Kunt and Chenopodium Album (L.) Grew

Qing Yang, Xuemin Guan, Yanfang Liu, Aiying Guo, Ru Long, Fengjuan Zhang

Symposium 18. Organelle Communication

145. A Novel Link between Chloroplast Development and Stress Response Lessoned by Leaf-Variegated Mutant
Wataru Sakamoto, Eiko Miura, Yusuke Kato

146. The Role of Plant-Specific PPR Proteins in Chloroplast RNA Editing
Kenji Okuda, Toshiharu Shikanai

Symposium 19. Marine Photosynthesis and Global Impact

147. The Role of tRNAs in Cyanophages
Limor-Waisberg Kerena, Carmi Asaf, Scherz Avigdor, Pilpel Yitzhak, Furman Itay

148. Newly Isolated Chl d-Containing Cyanobacteria
Yaqiong Li, Anthony Larkum, Martin Schliep, Michael Kühl, Brett Neilan, Min Chen

149. How do Enzyme Dynamics Influence Rubisco Activity?
F. Grant Pearce

Symposium 20. Crop Yield Improvement

150. Photosynthesis, Photorespiration and Productivity of Wheat Genotypes (Triticum L.)
Jalal A. Aliyev

151. Response of Chlorophyll Fluorescence Parameters of Illicium Lanceolatum to Different Light Conditions
Yonghui Cao, Benzhi Zhou, Rumin Zhang, Lianhong Gu

152. Effects of Elevated Root-Zone CO2 and Root-Zone Temperature on Productivity and Photosynthesis of Aeroponically Grown Lettuce Plants
Jie He, Lin Qin, Sing Kong Lee

153. Comparative Nitrogen Allocation and Partitioning of Field-Grown Gossypium Hirsutum and G. Barbadense

Yali Zhang, Yuanyuan Hu, Honghai Luo, Wangfeng Zhang

154. Photosynthetic Performance of Maize Subjected to Low Temperatures
Soni S. Mulakupadom, Saul Otero, Gary Lanigan, Bruce Osborne

155. Stereochemical Control of Asymmetric Reduction by Deleting an Alcohol Gehydrogenase Gene of a Cyanobacterium
Hisataka Ohta, Kenjro Suzuki, Tetsuo Takemura, Kaori Akiyama, Nobuaki Umeno, Yukiko Tamai, Kaoru Nakamura

156. The Different Photoprotective Mechanisms of Various Green Organs in Cotton (Gossypium Hirsutum L.)
Yuanyuan Hu, Yali Zhang, Honghai Luo, Wah Soon Chow, Wangfeng Zhang

Symposium 21. Microbial Derived Biofuels

157. Functioning of the Bidirectional Hydrogenase in Different Unicellular Cyanobacteria
Éva Kiss, Péter B. Kós, Min Chen, Imre Vass

158. Lessons from Energy Balances for the Production Strategies of Biofuels
Christian Wilhelm, Torsten Jakob, Uwe Langner, Katja Stehfest, Heiko Wagner

159. Improvement of Nitrogenase-Based Photobiological Hydrogen Production by Cyanobacteria by Gene Engineering — Genetic Engineering and Culture Conditions towards Improved Photobiological Hydrogen Production by Cyanobacteria
Hidehiro Sakurai, Masaharu Kitashima, Hajime Masukawa, Kazuhito Inoue

160. Phycobilisome Antenna Deletion in a Cyanobacterium does Not Improve Photosynthetic Energy Conversion Efficiency or Productivity in a Bench-Scale Photobioreactor System
Lawrence E. Page, Michelle Liberton, Hanayo Sato, Himadri B. Pakrasi

Symposium 22. Photosynthesis and New Environmental Challenges

161. Measurement of Mesophyll Conductance in Tobacco, Arabidopsis and Wheat Leaves with Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy
Youshi Tazoe, Susanne Caemmerer, John R. Evans

162. Influence of Enhanced Ultraviolet-B Radiation on Photosynthesis in Flag Leaves of a Super-High-Yield Hybrid Rice during Senescence
Meiping Zhang, Guoxiang Chen

163. Effect of Exposure to UVA Radiation on Photosynthesis and Isoprene Emission in Populus × Euroamericana

Emanuele Pallozzi, Giovanni Marino, Alessio Fortunati, Francesco Loreto, Mauro Centritto

164. Effects of Salt Stress on Photosystem II Efficiency and CO2 Assimilation in Two Syrian Barley Landraces
Hazem M. Kalaji, Govindjee, Karolina Bosa, Janusz Kościelniak, Krystyna Żuk-Gołaszewska

165. The Effects of Antisense Suppression of δ Subunit of Chloroplast ATP Synthase on the Rates of Chloroplast Electron Transport and CO2 Assimilation in Transgenic Tobacco
Wataru Yamori, Shunichi Takahashi, Amane Makino, G. Dean Price, Murray R. Badger, Susanne Caemmerer

166. The Effects of Elevated CO2 Concentration on Photosynthesis and Photosystem II Photochemistry in a Fast Growing Tree Species, Gmelina Arborea Roxb
Girish K. Rasineni, Attipalli R. Reddy

167. Influence of Elevated CO2 Concentration on Photosynthesis and Biomass Yields in a Tree Species, Gmelina Arborea Roxb
Girish K. Rasineni, Attipalli R. Reddy

Symposium 23. Global Photosynthesis and Climate Change

168. The Effect of Mineral Nutrition on Photostnthetic Activity and Saponin Content of Puncture Vine (Tribulus Terrestris L.)
Georgi I. Georgiev, Liliana Maslenkova, Antoaneta Ivanova, Luba Evstatieva, Albena Ivanova, Lozanka Popova

169. Chlorophyll d Production in Crushed Algae in Aqueous Acetone
Shinya Akutsu, Shingo Itoh, Keisuke Aoki, Hayato Furukawa, Hideaki Miyashita, Koji Iwamoto, Yoshihiro Shiraiwa, Masaaki Okuda, Masami Kobayashi

170. Conversion of Chl a into Chl d by Horseradish Peroxidase
Hayato Furukawa, Keisuke Aoki, Shingo Itoh, Yasuhiro Abe, Masataka Nakazato, Koji Iwamoto, Yoshihiro Shiraiwa, Hideaki Miyashita, Masaaki Okuda, Masami Kobayashi

171. Novel Conversion of Chl a into Chl d Catalyzed by Grated Vegetables
Shingo Itoh, Keisuke Aoki, Masataka Nakazato, Koji Iwamoto, Yoshihiro Shiraiwa, Hideaki Miyashita, Masaaki Okuda, Masami Kobayashi

172. Nonenzymatic Formation of Chl d from Chl a with Hydrogen Peroxide
Keisuke Aoki, Shingo Itoh, Hayato Furukawa, Masataka Nakazato, Koji Iwamoto, Yoshihiro Shiraiwa, Hideaki Miyashita, Masaaki Okuda, Masami Kobayashi

173. Winter Photosynthesis of Evergreen Broadleaf Trees from a Montane Cloud Forest in Subtropical China
Yongjiang Zhang, Kunfang Cao, Guillermo Goldstein

174. The Photosynthetic Surface Area of Apple Trees
Krzysztof Tokarz, Jan Pilarski, Maciej Kocurek

Symposium 24. Photosynthesis Education

175. Evolution of the Z-Scheme of Electron Transport in Oxygenic Photosynthesis
Govindjee, Lars Olof Björn, Kärin Nickelsen

176. The Golden Apples of the Sun: the History of Photosynthesis—so Far
Anthony W. D. Larkum

Keywords: Life Sciences, Plant Sciences, Biochemistry, general, Biophysics and Biological Physics, Agriculture, Renewable and Green Energy