Wild, Aloysius & Ball, Raphael
PHOTOSYNTHETIC UNIT AND PHOTOSYSTEMS
Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, 1997
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| 1 | Part A: Early concepts of photosynthesis | |
| 1.1 | Assimilation theories: photosynthetic function and mechanism | 1 |
| 1.1.1 | Early assimilation theories: basis and historical introduction | 1 |
| 1.1.2 | Concepts of photosynthetic processes and mechanisms until the discovery of the HILL reaction in 1937 | 3 |
| 1.1.3 | Early studies on the energy conversion in photosynthesis | 10 |
| 1.1.4 | The theory of the photosynthetic unit | 14 |
| 1.1.5 | Assimilation theories in the context of quantum yield | 20 |
| 1.1.6 | Summary | 26 |
| 1.2 | Structure of chloroplasts and grana | 28 |
| 1.2.1 | Introduction | 28 |
| 1.2.2 | Discoveries in the 1920s and 1930s | 29 |
| 1.2.3 | Achievements in the 1950s | 34 |
| 1.2.4 | Summary | 41 |
| 1.3 | An attempt to relate structure and function: the quantasome hypothesis and the background of a nearly forgotten term | 42 |
| 1.3.1 | Starting conditions | 42 |
| 1.3.2 | The quantasome hypothesis | 43 |
| 1.3.3 | The end of an idea: the quantasome hypothesis in the cross-fire of critique | 51 |
| 1.3.4 | The quantasomes are dead; long live the quantasomes! (Aftermath of a term) | 54 |
| 1.3.5 | Summary | 56 |
| 2 | Part B: New results | |
| 2.1 | The discovery of the photosystems in the 1960s before a background of various photosynthesis theoriesm | 57 |
| 2.1.1 | Photosynthesis research at the beginning of the 1950s: foundations and open questions leading to photosystem theories | 57 |
| 2.1.2 | The concept of two cooperating photosystems: conditions and foundations | 63 |
| 2.1.3 | The Z scheme of photosynthesis | 66 |
| 2.1.4 | Alternatives to the Z scheme | 72 |
| 2.1.5 | Mutant algae blur the classic picture of photosynthesis | 79 |
| 2.1.6 | Summary | 80 |
| 2.2 | The resurgence of the photosynthetic unit and its modern revision | 82 |
| 2.2.1 | Introduction | 82 |
| 2.2.2 | Doubts about the experimental and theoretical concept of the photosynthetic unit | 83 |
| 2.2.3 | The size of the photosynthetic unit and its variability in aurea plants | 85 |
| 2.2.4 | Dynamics of the photosynthetic unit under different light conditions | 92 |
| 2.2.5 | Changes, differences, and misunderstandings in the definition of the photosynthetic unit | 110 |
| 3 | Part C: A current view of the photosynthetic apparatus | |
| 3.1 | Understanding the photosystems | 127 |
| 3.1.1 | Introduction | 127 |
| 3.1.2 | The reaction center of purple bacteria | 129 |
| 3.1.3 | Photosystem II core complex | 131 |
| 3.1.4 | Photosystem I core complex | 153 |
| 3.1.5 | PSII type and PSI type reaction centers | 169 |
| 3.1.6 | Reaction center complex of green sulfur bacteria | 172 |
| 3.1.7 | Reaction center complex of heliobacteria | 175 |
| 3.1.8 | Lateral segregation of the two photosystems | 180 |
| 3.1.9 | Light-harvesting antennae in higher plants | 183 |
| 3.1.10 | Light-harvesting complexes of photosynthetic purple bacteria | 203 |
| 4 | Index of names |