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Control of Photosystem II in spinach leaves by continuous light and by light pulses given in the dark

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The light-induced induction of components of non-photochemical quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence which are distinguished by different rates of dark relaxation (qNf, rapidly relaxing and qNs, slowly relaxing or not relaxing at all in the presence brief saturating light pulses which interrupt darkness at low frequencies) was studied in leaves of spinach.

After dark adaptation of the leaves, a fast relaxing component developed in low light only after a lag phase. Quenching increased towards a maximum with increasing photon flux density. This ‘fast’ component of quenching was identified as energy-dependent quenching qE. It required formation of an appreciable transthylakoid ΔpH and was insignificant when darkened spinach leaves received 1 s pulses of light every 30 s even though zeaxanthin was formed from violaxanthin under these conditions.

Another quenching component termed qNs developed in low light without a lag phase. It was not dependent on a transthylakoid pH gradient, decayed exponentially with a long half time of relaxation and was about 20% of total quenching irrespective of light intensity. When darkened leaves were flashed at frequencies higher than 0.004 Hz with 1 s light pulses, this quenching also appeared. Its extent was very considerable, and it did not require formation of zeaxanthin. Relaxation was accelerated by far-red light, and this acceleration was abolished by NaF.

We suggest that qNs is the result of a so-called state transition, in which LHC II moves after its phosphorylation from fluorescent PS II to nonfluorescent PS I. This state transition was capable of decreasing in darkened leaves the potential maximum quantum efficiency of electron flow through Photosystem II by about 20%.

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Abbreviations

PFD:

photon flux density

PS:

photosystem

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  1. Julius-von-Sachs-Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Würzburg, D-97082, Würzburg, Germany

    Nikolai G. Bukhov, Christian Wiese, Spidola Neimanis & Ulrich Heber

  2. Timiriasev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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Bukhov, N.G., Wiese, C., Neimanis, S. et al. Control of Photosystem II in spinach leaves by continuous light and by light pulses given in the dark. Photosynth Res 50, 181–191 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00014888

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