LHCII acting as antenna of both photosystems is required to achieve excitation balance between Photosystem I and Photosystem II.

Claim · model-written summary

LHCII acting as antenna of both photosystems is required to achieve excitation balance between Photosystem I and Photosystem II.

Taxon

plantsViridiplantaee0

Gene

LHCIIe1

Outcome

excitation balance between the two photosystemse1

Qualifier

quantitatively demonstratede1

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Verbatim

e1

“However, here we show that in most natural light conditions LHCII serves as an antenna of both Photosystem I and Photosystem II and it is quantitatively demonstrated that this is required to achieve excitation balance between the two photosystems”

e0

“LHCII, the most abundant membrane protein on earth, is the major light-harvesting complex of plants”