Photosynthesis: Dissipating energy by carotenoids
March 18th, 2015 by Diana Kirilovsky
Nature Chemical Biology 11, 242 (2015). doi:10.1038/nchembio.1771
Author: Diana Kirilovsky
The demonstration of excitation energy dissipation via energy transfer in a cyanobacterial chlorophyll-carotenoid membrane complex provides evidence that this mechanism may also operate in the light-harvesting complex antennae of higher plants.