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    Effect of nickel on certain physiological and biochemical behaviors of an acid tolerantChlorella vulgaris (1994)
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    BioMetals 7 (1994), S. 193-200 
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    ISSN: 1572-8773
    Keywords: Chorella vulgaris ; acid tolerance ; ATPase ; nickel toxicity ; nutrient uptake ; photosynthesis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract This study concerns the inhibitory effects of acid pH and nickel on growth, nutrient (NO3 - and NH4 +) uptake, carbon fixation, O2 evolution, electron transport chain and enzyme (nitrate reductase and ATPase) activities of acid tolerant and wild-type strains of Chlorella vulgaris. Though a general reduction in all these variables was noticed with decreasing pH, the tolerant strain was found to be metabolically more active than the wild-type. A reduced cation (NH4 +, Na+, K+ and Ca2+) uptake, coupled with a facilitated influx of anions (NH4 +, PO4 3- and HCO3 -), suggested the development of a positive membrane potential in acid tolerant Chlorella. Nevertheless, a tremendous increase in ATPase activity at decreasing pH revealed the involvement of superactive ATPase in exporting H+ ions and keeping the internal pH neutral. A difference in Na+ and K+ efflux of the two strains at decreasing pH suggests there is a difference in membrane permeability. The low toxicity of Ni in the acid tolerant strain may be due to the low Ni uptake brought about by a change in membrane potential as well as in permeability. Hence, the development of superactive ATPase and a change in both membrane potential and permeability not only offers protection against acidity, but also co-tolerance to metals.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00140491
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    Modification of carbonic anhydrase activity by antisense and over-expression constructs in transgenic tobacco (1994)
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    Plant molecular biology 25 (1994), S. 377-385 
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    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: carbonic anhydrase ; antisense ; over-expression ; tobacco ; photosynthesis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The activity and location of carbonic anhydrase has been modified by transformation of tobacco with antisense and over-expression constructs. Antisense expression resulted in the inhibition of up to 99% of carbonic anhydrase activity but had no significant impact on net CO2 assimilation. Stomatal conductance and susceptibility to water stress appeared to increase in response to the decline in carbonic anhydrase activity. An over-expression construct designed to increase cytosolic carbonic anhydrase abundance resulted in a significant increase in net activity, a small increase in stomatal conductance but little impact on CO2 assimilation. Chloroplastic carbonic anhydrase activity was enhanced by the expression of an additional construct which targeted the polypeptide to the organelle. The increase in chloroplastic carbonic anhydrase appeared to be accompanied by a concomitant increase in Rubisco activity.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00043867
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    Over-production of the D1 protein of photosystem II reaction centre in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 (1994)
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    Plant molecular biology 26 (1994), S. 709-721 
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    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: gene expression ; photosynthesis ; protein turnover ; psbA ; tac promoter
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The unicellular cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 has three psbA genes encoding two different forms of the photosystem II reaction centre protein D1 (D1:1 and D1:2). The level of expression of these psbA genes and the synthesis of D1:1 and D1:2 are strongly regulated under varying light conditions. In order to better understand the regulatory mechanisms underlying these processes, we have constructed a strain of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 capable of over-producing psbA mRNA and D1 protein. In this study, we describe the over-expression of D1:1 using a tac-hybrid promoter in front of the psbAI gene in combination with lacI Q repressor system. Over-production of D1:1 was induced by growing cells for 12 h at 50 μmol photons m-2 s-1 in the presence of 40 or 80 μg/ml IPTG. The amount of psbAI mRNA and that of D1:1 protein in cells grown with IPTG was three times and two times higher, respectively. A higher concentration of IPTG (i.e., 150 μg/ml) did not further increase the production of the psbAI message or D1:1. The over-production of D1:1 caused a decrease in the level of D1:2 synthesised, resulting in most PSII reaction centres containing D1:1. However, the over-production of D1:1 had no effect on the pigment composition (chlorophyll a or phycocyanin/number of cells) or the light-saturated rate of photosynthesis. This and the fact that the total amounts of D1 and D2 proteins were not affected by IPTG suggest that the number of PSII centres within the membranes remained unchanged. From these results, we conclude that expression of psbAI can be regulated by using the tac promoter and lacI Q system. However, the accumulation of D1:1 protein into the membrane is regulated by the number of PSII centres.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00013756
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    2,6-Di-O-pentyl-3-O-propionyl-γ-cyclodextrin as an enantiomeric stationary phase for capillary gas chromatography (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 22-28 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Chiral separation ; Capillary column ; 2,6-Di-O-pentyl-3-O-propionyl-γ-cyclodextrin
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary 2,6-Di-O-pentyl-3-O-propionyl-γ-cyclodextrin has been synthesized and used for enantiomer separation in capillary gas chromatography. Experimental results showed that the stationary phase has good enantiomer selectivity toward amino acids, amines, alcohols, diols, epoxides, and lactones,etc. 2,6-Di-O-pentyl-3-O-propionyl-γ-cyclodextrin has good thermal stability: the highest recommended temperature isca 170°C.
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    Determination of pentachlorophenol residues in wine and corks by solvent extraction methodology and specific gas chromatography detection (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 147-150 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Pentachlorophenol residues ; Off-flavours ; Wines and corks ; Electrolytic conductivity detector/mass spectrometry ; detectors
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary A gas chromatographic methodology with selective detection is presented for the analysis in wines and corks of pentachlorophenol residues, which are suspected to be the most likely precursors of some off-flavours described in several wine samples. After derivatisation, pentachlorophenol acetate residues were monitored by electrolytic conductivity detection and/or mass spectrometric detection in the selective ion mode at m/z 264 and 266. Recoveries varied from 80 to 96% for wine samples fortified with 5 to 100 μg l−1 and from 83 to 91% for corks (fortified at 25 to 100 μg kg−1). The proposed methodology allowed for a determination limit of μg l−1 for wine and 10 μg kg−1 for corks.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02290327
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    Capillary gas chromatography of plant tissues and soil phenolic acids (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 475-478 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Phenolic acids ; Olive and elm tree tissues ; Soil phenolics
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary A method for the separation of phenolic acids along with shikimic and quinic acids by means of capillary gas chromatography is described and discussed. The method involves the previous derivatization of the acids to trimethylsilyl derivatives and it has been applied to the separation of acids extracted from olive leaves and roots, elm leaves and a soil A horizon. Quite good results were achieved both from qualitative and quantitative points of view. Qualitative differences have been pointed out in the phenolic acid composition of two olive cultivars and between leaves and roots of the same cultivar; also two elm species can be discriminated on the basis of the phenolic acid content.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02269839
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    Characterization of methacrylic ester of p, p′-dihydroxydiphenylpropane diglicydyl ether-divinylbenzene porous copolymers for GC (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 643-648 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Porous polymer stationary phase ; Selectivity studies
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary The behaviour of GC columns packed with the copolymer of methacrylic ester of p,p'-dihydroxydiphenylpropane diglicydyl ether and divinylbenzene was studied. Selectivity studies were made for three polymer samples of different molar ratio of monomers. To determine the selectivities of these copolymers retention indices for seven test compounds in comparison to those obtained on Porapak Q are calculated. Additionally, the efficiency of porous polymer purification was studied by a SFE-GC-MS technique.
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    Enantiomeric separation of amphetamine and methamphetamine by capillary gas chromatography (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 595-598 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Chiral / enantiomeric separation ; Amphetamine ; Methamphetamine ; Cyclodextrin-derivatized phases
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary Enantiomeric separation of amphetamine and methamphetamine as achiral derivatives on 2,6-di-O-pentyl-3-O-trifluoroacetyl-β-cyclodextrin, 2,6-di-O-pentyl-3-O-trifluoroacetyl-γ-cyclodextrin and 2,6-di-O-pentyl-3-O-propionyl-γ-cyclodextrin stationary phase in capillary gas chromatography is described. Trifluoroacetic anhydride and acetic anhydride were used as derivatizing reagents. Excellent precision was obtained for concentrations down to 0.1% / e.e. On 2,6-di-O-pentyl-3-O-propionyl-γ-cyclodextrin the elution order of R,S-amphetamine was reversed when the derivatizing reagent was changed but could not be reversed on any of the other phase types.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02277160
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    Rapid magnetic particle-based ELISA assay compared with gas chromatography-nitrogen phosphorus detection for determining atrazine in freeze-dried water samples (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 633-636 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Nitrogen phosphorus detection ; Atrazine and simazine ; Freeze-dried water analysis ; ELISA
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary The determination of atrazine in freeze-dried water samples containing simazine, 0.6% glycine as stabilizer and other pesticides has been compared using three different techniques: (i) direct rapid-magnetic particlebased ELISA, (ii) dichloromethane liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) and Florisil column clean-up prior to ELISA determination and (iii) LLE, Florisil column clean-up and gas chroamtography with nitrogen phosphorus detection (GC-NPD). The methodology developed in this paper has shown the advantages of the introduction of a clean-up step prior to ELISA determination and its correlation with GC-NPD determinations. Atrazine could be determined at levels between 0.1 to 5 μg l−1 in water smaples using the different methods described in this paper. The crossreactivity problems found in the ELISA test associated with the presence of simazine are also discussed.
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    An improved gas chromatographic assay for spectinomycin hydrochloride (1994)
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    Chromatographia 39 (1994), S. 71-73 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Spectinomycin ; Silylation
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary A gas chromatographic assay for spectinomycin hydrochloride is described. The method is based on that prescribed by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP XXII). The method involves silylation of spectinomycin hydrochloride; phenazone is used as an internal standard. Spectinomycin and phenazone have adequate stability under the prescribed conditions. The stationary phase is 3% OV-17 on Gaschrom Q 100–120 mesh. The selectivity of the proposed method is better than that of the GLC method described in the USP XXII.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02320461
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    Enantiomer separation of side-chain fluorinated alkylbenzenes by capillary gas chromatography on cyclodextrin phases (1994)
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    Chromatographia 39 (1994), S. 192-199 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Enantiomer separation ; Permethylated cyclodextrin stationary phases ; Side-chain fluorinated alkylbenzenes ; Thermodynamic data
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary The separation of racemic side-chain fluorinated alkylbenzenes and bromofluorinated analogues by capillary gas chromatography using permethylated α, β and γ-cyclodextrins dissolved in polysiloxanes of different polarity as stationary phases is described. The influence of the achiral polysiloxane matrices on the separation of enantiomers is discussed in the light of the results obtained with the different phases. For a part of the tested compounds thermodynamic data are determined which describe the interaction of enantiomers with the stationary phase. The mechanism of separation is discussed on this basis and by comparison with data for structurally similar compounds.
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    Ruggedness testing of gas chromatographic method for residual solvents in pharmaceutical substances (1994)
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    Chromatographia 39 (1994), S. 355-362 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Method validation ; Reggedness test ; Residual solvents
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary Ruggedness testing is performed on a gas chromatographic method for the quantitative determination of residual solvents in steroids. Eight experimental variables or factors which were expected to influence the quantitative results were selected. These factors were divided into two independent groups, i.e. four factors related to the injection process and four factors related to separation and detection. In order to determine interaction between factors and quadratic effects, a central composite design was selected for the set-up of the experiments. Because in the method an internal standard is used, relative peak area was used as response. A deviation of up to 2.5% per factor for the quantitative results was regarded as acceptable. Other responses studied are related to the system suitability. Observed main, quadratic and interaction effects were translated into rugged intervals of the experimental variables by graphical presentation. It was found that besides main effects significant interaction effects were present, for example between the temperature of the injector and the split-flow. Interaction effects can easily result in the reduction of the rugged intervals by a factor of 2. The calculated rugged intervals were compared with the precision of the instrument or factor settings in order to estimate the ruggedness of the factors. Eventually, the maximum effect of the variation in the instrument settings on the quantitative results regarding the precision of the factor settings was found to be only 2.2%. Overall, the method proved to be rugged for most factors, except for the split-flow of the injector for which the method was only rugged to a limited extent.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02274525
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    Effect of ester molecular structure and column temperature on the retention of eight esters in gas chromatography (1994)
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    Chromatographia 39 (1994), S. 438-442 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Retention/structure and retention/temperature ; relationships ; Experimental design ; Enthalpy-entropy compensation ; para-Hydroxy benzoic esters
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary An experimental design has been used to study the effect of column temperature on the gas chromatographic retention of eightpara-hydroxy benzoic esters. A rapid procedure has been developed to reduce the number of experiments compared with traditional methods. Capacity factors were determined and the enthalpy and entropy of transfer from the mobile phase to the stationary phase, ΔHo and ΔSo, respectively, were calculated using the linear Van't Hoff equation (dependence of ln k′ on 1/T). A retention prediction system (RPS) for these compounds in GC was investigated. The molecular connectivity index was used to describe the quantitative structure relationships. Enthalpy — entropy compensation revealed that the mechanism was similar for all the compounds studied.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02278759
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    A very efficent column for the separation of 60 volatile organochlorine priority pollutants and for other environmental problems (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 114-117 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Priority pollutants ; EPA methods ; Unleaded gasoline ; Volatile organochlorine compounds
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary The complete separation of the sixty volatile organochlorine (VOC) priority pollutants has been achieved by coupling two different liquid-modified adsorption chromatography columns. Two temperature programs were used to obtain the complete separation in a relatively short analysis time. Detection was by FID alone
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    Influence of adsorption effects on retention indices of selected C10-hydroxy compounds at various temperatures (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 93-97 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Retention index ; Adsorption effects ; Terpene alcohols ; Fused-silica capillary columns
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary Retention indices of 6 selected hydroxy compounds (aliphatic and bicyclic alcohols, phenols) were determined on 2 HP-5 fused-silica, capillary columns with different film thicknesses (0.11 μm and 0.33 μm) at 8 different oven temperatures between 80 and 150°C. For some substances the I-T plot was found to show a minimum which cannot be explained by the common retention-index temperature-dependence in gas-liquid chromatography. This result is discussed in terms of adsorption at the liquid-solid interface of the capillary column.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02275733
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    Molecular structural coefficients of Takács. Their dependence on column temperature, stationary phase polarity and solute chemical nature (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 701-708 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Stationary Phase and solute polarity ; Molecular structural coefficients ; Retention index ; Takács equation
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary Molecular structural coefficients, Sc, for one hundred solutes have been calculated by means of the Takács equation using retention data obtained with over fifty stationary phases, SP. Employing data of seven SP's (characterized in our laboratories) it was found that the variation of Sc with column temperature was linear for most solutes. With data of n-decane and the ten McReynolds probes on up to fifty SP's of polarity less than RP=72, at 120°C, it was found that the Sc of n-decane and cis-hydrindane decreased slightly with increasing SP polarity, while the Sc of non-alkanes remained constant or increased very little as the SP polarity increased. The points for n-decane fit well to a second order polynomial. Again using a temperature of 120°C, the increments of Sc for solutes belonging to an homologous series were correlated with the polarity of SP's. Reasonably straight lines were obtained for all the chemical functions studied, Sc increasing with increasing SP polarity.
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    Characterization of some new polysiloxane stationary phases by principal component analysis (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 227-231 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Stationary phase characterization ; Principal component analysis
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary In this study, several new stationary phases were characterized by principal component analysis. Fourteen new stationary phases, including substituted phenyl and oligoethyleneoxide functionalities on polysiloxane polymers, were tested and compared to three well known stationary phases. The main features of these phases were studied using a series of test solutes of varying chemical characteristics representing the data set for principal component analysis. Two principal compounds were found to account for 99.20% of the variance (the first accounted for 94.96% and the second for 4.24%). The data were represented as a two-dimensional map for visual representation of the characteristics of these stationary phases. The first principal component represented a selectivity based on polarity (r2=0.998), while the second showed Lewis acid-base characteristics of the phases. Polarizable and amphoteric characteristics of these phases also became evident using this evaluation method.
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    Comparison of supercritical fluid extraction and liquid-liquid extraction for isolation of selected pesticides stored in freeze-dried water samples (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 502-508 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Liquid-liquid extraction ; Supercritical fluid extraction ; Pesticides ; Freeze-dried water
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary The stability of freeze-dried water samples spiked with eight agrochemicals (atrazine, simazine, linuron, carbaryl, propanil, fenitrothion, parathion and fenamiphos) were examined to evaluate their suitability as candidate reference materials for their determination in water samples. In addition, two different extraction procedures, liquid-liquid and supercritical fluid extraction, were compared for the isolation and trace enrichment of target analytes from freeze-dried water samples. Final analytical determinations were by gas chromatography-nitrogen phosphorus detection and electronic impact mass spectrometry, and by liquid chromatography-diode array detection. The whole methodology developed in this paper permitted the determination of pesticides spiked in water at levels varying from 0.03 to 6.9 μg L−1.
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    Determination of bromoxynil and ioxynil residues in cereals and soil by GC-ITD (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 624-628 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Ion-trap detection ; Nitriles ; Cerelas ; Perfluoroacylation
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary Bromoxynil and ioxynil have been determined inplants and soil by gas chromatography. These herbicides are extracted from soil samples with methylene chloride at acidic pH. Plant samples are extracted with a basic acqueous solution and extracts purified by solvent partitioning. Herbicide residues are submitted to perfluoroacylation prior to GC separation. These compoiunds are determined by ion-trap detection with single ion monitoring; N-(3-chloro-4 methyl-phenyl_ perfluoropropyl amide is used as internal standard. The detection limit of the method is near 0.001 μg g−1 for the samples studied. The proposed methods are sensitive and reproducible enough to allow determination of these herbicides at residue levels in plants and soil.
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    Supercritical fluid extraction of oxadixyl from food crops (1994)
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    Chromatographia 39 (1994), S. 11-14 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) ; Gas chromatography ; Pesticide residues ; Oxadixyl
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary This work describes the study of a degradation curve of Oxadixyl in field-treated potato and tomato samples. The residues were extracted using classical and supercritical fluid (SFE) extraction methods and analyzed by HRGC/ECD. The extraction techniques were compared and the results indicate the advantages of using SFE as an alternative method for pesticide analyses in these samples.
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    Analysis of short chain fatty acids from different intestinal samples. I: By packed column gas chromatography (1994)
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    Chromatographia 39 (1994), S. 706-712 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Short chain fatty acids ; Intestinal fluids
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary The quantification of short chain fatty acids in their free form, by gas chromatography, is the method of choice provided that the underivatized acids elute with good peak shape and reproducibility. In biological samples not only the highly polar acids themselves but also deposits of nonvolatile sample components may interact with the column or the packing material. As a result, the peak symmetry of the fatty acids and their reproducibility can become increasingly poor. Reduction of the nonvolatile matrix components by filtration of the sample has been examined in order to achieve direct analysis of the short chain fatty acids in intestinal samples by packed column GC. Membrane filter units (0.8 μm) allow a quick and simple filtration of the samples. This pretreatment reduces the peak tailing and the broadening of the peaks. The method, when applied to different intestinal samples, allowed the quantification of short chain fatty acids in hundreds of samples without derivatization. Good results are obtained at sample concentrations higher than 0.2 mmol l−1 for each acid.
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    Capillary gas chromatography of C1−C4 alkyl tert-butyl ethers (1994)
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    Chromatographia 39 (1994), S. 224-227 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; C1−C4 alkyl tert-butyl ethers ; Retention index
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary The separation of C1−C4 alkyl tert-butyl ethers with the general formula (CH3)3C−O−R (R-alkyl substituent) on fused-silica capillary columns coated with dimethylsilicone and cyanopropylmethylsilicone stationary phases was investigated. Retention indices were determined at two temperatures in order to understand their chromatographic behaviour. The respective standard deviations were 0.3 and 0.5 i.u.
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    GC-NPD investigation of the recovery of organonitrogen and organophosphorus pesticides from apple samples: The effect of the extraction solvent (1994)
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    Chromatographia 39 (1994), S. 320-324 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Organonitrogen pesticides ; Organophosphorus pesticides ; Apples ; Solvent extraction
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    Notes: Summary A gas chromatographic method employing a capillary column and a selective nitrogen/phosphorus detector (NPD) has been developed for the determination of organophosphorus (OP) and organonitrogen (NP) pesticides in horticultural samples (apples). The separation of sixteen pesticides and the internal standard was performed in thirteen minutes. The analytical characteristics of the method, including linear response ranges, detection limits, and reproducibility, have been studied using a 1∶1 mixture of ethyl acetate and xylene as extraction solvent. The possibility of mutual interference between pesticides has also been studied. A procedure for the quantitative extraction of the sixteen pesticides from apple samples has also been developed; for fifteen of the pesticides recoveries 〉85% were obtained after 90 minutes extraction. The effect of different solvents both on recovery and on the sensitivity of the subsequent chromatography were also investigated. It was found that the sensitivity required must be considered when the solvent for sample treatment is selected.
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    Chromatographic determination of D-amino acids as native constituents of vegetables and fruits (1994)
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    Chromatographia 39 (1994), S. 419-426 
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    Keywords: Column liquid chromatography ; Gas chromatography ; Chirasil-Val ; Amino acid enantiomers ; N-Isobutyryl-cysteine
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    Notes: Summary Free D-amino acids (D-AA) were detected as native constituents in juices of vegetables (cultivars of cabbage, tomato, carrot, garlic) and fruits (organes, clementine, grapefruit, lemon, apples, pear, grapes) using gas chromatography (GC) or high-performance liquid chromatography (LC). For investigation by GC, AA enantiomers were converted into theirN(O)-pentafluoropropionyl 2-propyl esters and resolved on a Chirasil-L-Val capillary column. For determination by LC, precolumn derivatization of AA enantiomers usingo-phthaldialdehyde together with the chiral thiolsN-isobutyryl-L-cysteine orN-isobutyryl-D-cysteine and fluorescence detection of the diastereomeric isoindole derivatives, resolvable on an octadecylsilyl stationary phase, were used. D-Ala (0.6–3.8%) was detected in all freshly pressed plant juices usually in the highest relative amounts. Other D-AA detected were D-Asx (0.1–1.9%), D-Glx (0–1.3%), D-Ser (0–1.7%), D-Arg (0.4–1.2%, in grapes, orange, grapefruit, and clementine) and D-Leu and D-Val (1% in cabbage). Absolute amounts of native D-AA were totally 28–57 μmol L−1 in fruit juices, 14.5 μmol L−1 in a tomato juice and 8.5 μmol L−1 in a carrot juice.
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    Iron deprivation in cyanobacteria (1994)
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    Journal of applied phycology 6 (1994), S. 199-210 
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    Keywords: cyanobacteria ; iron deficiency ; photosynthesis ; siderophores ; flavodoxin
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    Notes: Abstract Iron is an essential component of electron transport in almost all living organisms. It is particularly important to phototrophs like cyanobacteria because 22–23 irons are required for a complete functional photosynthetic apparatus. Since the low solubility of Fe+++ above neutral pH in oxic ecosystems severely limits the biological availability of iron to aquatic microorganisms, cyanobacteria and other microbes have developed a number of responses to cope with iron deficiency. Cyanobacterial responses to iron stress include the synthesis of an efficient, siderophore-based system to scavenge iron and the substitution of ferredoxin with flavodoxin. An additional response in cyanobacteria involves the alteration of the light-harvesting apparatus that includes the appearance of a new, iron-stress-induced, photosystem II, chlorophyll-binding protein. Although cytochromec-553 has a potential non-iron-containing replacement in plastocyanin, a copper-containing protein, iron stress appears to favor the utilization of cytochromec-553 because siderophores also bind copper and form a complex that is excluded from the cell. This paper is intended primarily as a review of molecular and physiological responses of actively growing cyanobacterial cultures to conditions of iron stress, where iron is present but essentially insoluble, and to differentiate these responses from iron starvation, where the amount of iron in the system is not sufficient for cell growth.
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    Use of chlorophyll fluorescence to estimate the effect of photoinhibition in outdoor cultures ofSpirulina platensis (1994)
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    Journal of applied phycology 6 (1994), S. 31-34 
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    Keywords: fluorescence ; photoinhibition ; photosynthesis ; Spirulina ; temperature
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    Notes: Abstract Chlorophyll fluorescence measurements were used to evaluate the effect of temperature on photoinhibition inSpirulina platensis cultures grown in tubular reactors outdoors. Cultures grown at 35 °C during the day time showed a lower reduction in the Fv/Fm ratio as compared to cultures grown at 25 °C. It is demonstrated that the lower temperature photoinhibited cells can undergo a complete recovery once transferred to low light and higher temperature. This recovery does not take place when 100 µg ml-1 chloramphenicol is added to cells. The recovery is light dependent and cells incubated in the dark at low temperature do not show a recovery in the Fv/Fm ratio. The data presented strongly support the hypothesis that photoinhibition takes place in outdoorSpirulina cultures. At the same time it is demonstrated that fluorescence measurements can be used as a fast reliable indication for photoinhibition in outdoor algal cultures.
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    Use of macroalgae for marine biomass production and CO2 remediation: a review (1994)
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    Journal of applied phycology 6 (1994), S. 45-60 
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    Keywords: biofilter ; biofuels ; CO2 ; macroalgae ; marine biomass ; photosynthesis
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    Notes: Abstract Biomass production from macroalgae has been viewed as important mainly because of the need for pollution abatement. Environmental considerations will increasingly determine product and process acceptability and drive the next generation of economic opportunity. Some countries, including Japan, are actively promoting "green" technologies that will be in demand worldwide in the coming decades. Should an international agreement on CO2-reduction be ratified, its effective use for energy production would be of high priority. This report shows that macroalgae have great potential for biomass production and CO2 bioremediation. Macroalgae have high productivity, as great or greater than the most productive land plants, and do not compete with terrestrial crops for farm land. The review focuses on recent data on productivity, photosynthesis, nutrient dynamics, optimization and economics. Biomass from macroalgae promises to provide environmentally and economically feasible alternatives to fossil fuels. Nevertheless, the techniques and technologies for growing macroalgae on a large-scale and for converting feedstocks to energy carriers must be more fully developed.
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    What kind of lamp for the cultivation of algae? (1994)
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    Journal of applied phycology 6 (1994), S. 309-313 
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    Keywords: light source ; emission spectrum ; photosynthesis ; algae ; absorption ; efficiency
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    Notes: Abstract A method for quantitative evaluation of light sources from the point of their suitability for algal cultivation is described. Two parameters are used for the evaluation: (1) amount of photons emitted in the spectral region absorbed by algae per consumed unit of electrical energy; (2) fraction of photons intercept by the algae that got effectively transformed into chemical energy. The value of parameter (2) depends on the emission spectrum of the light source, the absorption spectrum of the algae, quantum capacity of the algae and on conditions of cultivation. The method permits the assessment of the differences in algal productivity under light of various light sources with respect to other recent methods for comparison.
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    Turbulence in mass algal cultures and the role of light/dark fluctuations (1994)
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    Journal of applied phycology 6 (1994), S. 331-335 
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    Keywords: turbulence ; photosynthesis ; Chlorella ; light/dark cycles ; mass transfer rates
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    Notes: Abstract In mass algal cultures, some form of agitation is usually provided; among other effects, this moves the organisms though an optically dense profile and provides mixing. During this transport, medium frequency fluctuations in the light energy supply are perceived by the algae, which are of the order of 1 Hz and less. It has been suggested that turbulence with the resultant light/dark cycles of medium frequency enhances productivity. However, turbulence has two major influences in a well mixed system: it facilitates fluctuating light regimes and increases the transfer rates between the growth medium and the cultured organism. An estimation of productivity as oxygen liberation was measured under laminar and turbulent flow rates, and varying light/dark ratios. Increased turbulence, which increased exchange rates of nutrients and metabolites between the cells and their growth medium, together with increased light/dark frequencies, increased productivity and photosynthetic efficiency.
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    Genetic variation in pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Mill sp.) in response to successive cycles of water stress (1994)
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    Plant and soil 158 (1994), S. 193-201 
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    Keywords: photosynthesis ; osmotic adjustment ; stomatal conductance ; relative water content ; water potential ; water relations
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Abstract Four pigeon pea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Mill sp.] cultivars were studied during two cycles of development of water stress and recovery. During these two cycles the genetic variation in vegetative development, leaf water potential, relative water content, photosynthesis, and stomatal conductance was followed. Plants were grown in a greenhouse and irrigated every seventh day. On two occasions (30 days and 80 days from sowing) water was withheld for 13 days in one group of plants and 16 days in another. Control plants were irrigated as usual. The four cultivars differed in their response to drought, with ICPL 215 being the most tolerant cultivar. In the plants exposed to the 13-day water stress, the first stress cycle resulted in preconditioning of plants such that higher values for carbon dioxide exchange rate and relative water content were observed in the second stress cycle. The longer stress period (16 days) resulted in some damage to the photosynthetic capacity and in a slow recovery rate in both cycles. During the second drought cycle the plants retained a water content above the critical value, possibly due to osmotic adjustment. It seems that water status parameters, especially relative water content, may serve as indicators of drought tolerance in pigeon pea varieties and may be useful in breeding programs for cultivation of pigeon pea under semiarid conditions.
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    Model studies of chlorophyll fluorescence reabsorption at chloroplast level under different exciting conditions (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 40 (1994), S. 67-74 
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    Keywords: light conditions ; theoretical model ; barley leaf ; photosynthesis
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    Notes: Abstract A theoretical model is presented describing the distortion of chlorophyll fluorescence spectra of a chloroplast or a group of chloroplasts by the effect of fluorescence reabsorption. Model calculations using the experimental data show that the primary reabsorption effect occurs already within one chloroplast and the spectral distortion depends significantly on the excitation regime of the chloroplast. A theoretical dependence of the distortion function, defined as a change in the F(685)/F(735) fluorescence band ratio, on the mean chlorophyll concentration in a chloroplast is predicted for different light excitation regimes. The distortion of measured chlorophyll fluorescence spectra at 77 K of chloroplast suspension adsorbed on filter papers of two strongly different diffusive reflectivities and at different mean chlorophyll concentrations are discussed with the help of the presented theory.
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    UV-B damage and protection at the molecular level in plants (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 39 (1994), S. 475-489 
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    Keywords: DNA repair ; flavonoids ; gene expression ; oxidative stress ; photosynthesis ; promoter
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    Notes: Abstract Influx of solar UV-B radiation (280–320 nm) will probably increase in the future due to depletion of stratospheric ozone. In plants, there are several targets for the deleterious UV-B radiation, especially the chloroplast. This review summarizes the early effects and responses of low doses of UV-B at the molecular level. The DNA molecules of the plant cells are damaged by UV due to the formation of different photoproducts, such as pyrimidine dimers, which in turn can be combatted by specialized photoreactivating enzyme systems. In the chloroplast, the integrity of the thylakoid membrane seems to be much more sensitive than the activities of the photosynthetic components bound within. However, the decrease of mRNA transcripts for the photosynthetic complexes and other chloroplast proteins are among very early events of UV-B damage, as well as protein synthesis. Other genes, encoding defence-related enzymes, e.g., of the flavonoid biosynthetic pathway, are rapidly up-regulated after commencement of UV-B exposure. Some of the cis-acting nucleotide elements and trans-acting protein factors needed to regulate the UV-induced expression of the parsley chalcone synthase gene are known.
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    Photosynthetic electrogenic events in native membranes ofChloroflexus aurantiacus. Flash-induced charge displacements within the reaction center-cytochromec 554 complex (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 41 (1994), S. 135-143 
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    Keywords: photosynthesis ; electrometry ; membrane potential ; electron transfer ; charge displacement ; electrostatic ; Chloroflexus aurantiacus ; Rhodopseudomonas viridis
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    Notes: Abstract The thermophilic phototrophChloroflexus aurantiacus possesses a photosynthetic reaction center (RC) containing a pair of menaquinones as primary (QA) and secondary (QB) electron acceptors and a bacteriochlorophyll dimer (P) as a primary donor. A tetraheme cytochromec 554 with two high(H)- and two low(L)-potential hemes operates as an immediate electron donor for P. The following equilibrium Em,7 values were determined by ESR for the hemes in whole membrane preparations: 280 mV (H1), 150 mV (H2), 95 mV (L1) and 0 mV (L2) (Van Vliet et al. (1991) Eur. J. Biochem. 199: 317–323). Partial electrogenic reactions induced by a laser flash inChl. aurantiacus chromatophores adsorbed to a phospholipid-impregnated collodion film were studied electrometrically at pH 8.3. The photoelectric response included a fast phase of ΔΨ generation (τ 〈 10 ns, phase A). It was ascribed to the charge separation between P+ and QA − as its amplitude decreased both at high and low Eh values (Em,high=360±10 mV, estimated Em,low∼\s-160 mV) in good agreement with Em values for P/P+ and QA/QA − redox couples. A slower kinetic component appeared upon reduction of the cytochromec 554 hemes (phase C). With H1 reduced before the flash the amplitude of phase C was equal to 15–20% of that of phase A and its rise time was 1.2–1.3 μs: we attribute this phase to the electrogenic electron transfer from H1 to P+. Pre-reduction of H2 decreased the τ value to about 700–800 ns and increased the amplitude of phase C to 30–35% of that of phase A. Pre-reduction of L1 further accelerated phase C (up to τ of 500 ns) and induced a reverse electrogenic phase with τ of 12 μs and amplitude equal to 10% of phase A. Upon pre-reduction of L2 the rise time of phase C was decreased to about 300 ns and its amplitude decreased by 30%. The acceleration in the onset of phase C is explained by the acceleration of the rate-limiting H1 ⇒ P electrogenic reaction after reduction of the other hemes due to their electrostatic influence; a P-H1-(L1-L2)-H2 alignment of redox centers with an approximately rhombic arrangement of the cytochromec 554 hemes is proposed. The observed reverse phase is ascribed to the post-flash charge redistribution between the hemes. Redox titration of the amplitude of phase C yielded the Em,8.3 values of H1, H2 and L2 hemes: 340±10 mV for H1, 160±20 mV for H2 and −40±40 mV for L2.
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    Pigment interactions in chlorosomes of various green bacteria (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 41 (1994), S. 175-180 
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    Keywords: Chlorobium ; Chloroflexus ; chlorophyll ; light-harvesting ; photosynthesis ; resonance Raman
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    Notes: Abstract Resonance Raman experiments were performed on different green bacteria. With blue excitation, i.e. under Soret resonance or preresonance conditions, resonance Raman contributions were essentially arising from the chlorosome pigments. By comparing these spectra and those of isolated chlorosomes, it is possible to evaluate how the latter retain their native structure during the isolation procedures. The structure of bacteriochlorophyll oligomers in chlorosomes was interspecifically compared, in bacteriochlorophyllc- and bacteriochlorophylle- synthesising bacteria. It appears that interactions assumed by the 9-keto carbonyl group are identical inChlorobium limicola, Chlorobium tepidum, andChlorobium phaeobacteroides. In the latter strain, the 3-formyl carbonyl group of bacteriochlorophylle is kept free from intermolecular interactions. By contrast, resonance Raman spectra unambiguously indicate that the structure of bacteriochlorophyll oligomers is slightly different in chlorosomes fromChloroflexus auranticus, either isolated or in the whole bacteria.
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    The formation and characterization of the in vitro polymeric aggregates of bacteriochlorophyllc homologs fromChlorobium limicola in aqueous suspension in the presence of monogalactosyl diglyceride (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 41 (1994), S. 235-243 
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    Keywords: bacteriochlorophyll ; chlorosomeChlorobium limicola ; green bacteria ; photosynthesis ; monogalactosyl diglyceride
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    Notes: Abstract Artificial aggregates of bacteriochlorophyllc (BChlc) were formed in an aqueous medium in the presence of a lipid, monogalactosyl diglyceride (MGDG), and the optical properties of those aggregates were studied by absorption and circular dichroism (CD) mainly. Four BChlc homologs, ([E,E]BChlc F, [P,E]BChlc F, [E,M]BChlc F and [I,E]BChlc F), were isolated from the green photosynthetic bacteriumChlorobium limicola strain 6230. Above 0.0004%, MGDG induced a red-shift of the absorption maxima of BChlc aggregates. At 0.003% MGDG BChlc aggregates showed absorption maxima in the range of 724 to 745 (±3) nm with a shift of 12 to 24 (±3) nm depending on the homolog species. Four kinds of BChlc-MGDG aggregates showed characteristic CD spectra. [E,M]BChlc F gave rise to a CD spectrum similar to that of chlorosomes, while the other three gave spectra of opposite sign. These aggregates are sensitive to 1-hexanol treatment; in a saturating amount (0.85%) of 1-hexanol, all the homologs gave a monomer-like absorption spectrum peaking at 670nm. At an intermediate concentration (0.5%), [E,M]BChlc F showed an enhanced CD intensity, as observed in native chlorosomes. Resonance Raman spectra of the monomer-like BChlc samples indicated that the keto vibrational band at ca. 1640 cm−1 was considerably weakened by the 0.85% 1-hexanol treatment, however the 1680 cm−1 band characteristic of a free keto group did not appear. These results indicate that the artificial aggregates formed by purified BChlc homologs and MGDG are good models for studying chlorosomes structure.
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    Sensitivity of the relative Fpl level of chlorophyll fluorescence induction in leaves to the heat stress (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 39 (1994), S. 201-204 
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    Keywords: automatic determination ; fluorescence parameters ; fluorometer ; induction curve ; photosynthesis
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    Notes: Abstract The (Fpl-Fo)/Fv value of the fluorescence induction curve is shown to be a more suitable parameter to detect a wider range of heat stress damage to thylakoid membranes as compared to quantities t 1/2 (time of fluorescence rise from Fo to (Fo+Fm)/2 level) and % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGak0Jf9crFfpeea0xh9v8qiW7rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaWaa0aaaeaacq% aHepaDaaaaaa!39D5!\[\overline \tau \] (the fluorescence induction time defined as the area above the induction curve normalized to Fv=1). A method for exact and automatic Fpl determination is presented. A break point in the quality and behaviour of the fluorescence induction curve of barley leaves incubated at 49°C was reached at the moment (about 240 s) when the transformation of PS II active (QB-reducing) to PS II inactive (QB-non-reducing) centres was completed. The meaning of the standard Fv and Fv/Fm parameter was then changed. The method of Fpl determination described here may help to increase the analytical value of the standard chlorophyll fluorometers.
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    The role of iron in phytoplankton photosynthesis, and the potential for iron-limitation of primary productivity in the sea (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 39 (1994), S. 275-301 
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    Keywords: chlorosis ; diagnostic ; flavodoxin ; iron-limitation ; photosynthesis ; phytoplankton
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    Notes: Abstract Iron supply has been suggested to influence phytoplankton biomass, growth rate and species composition, as well as primary productivity in both high and low NO3 − surface waters. Recent investigations in the equatorial Pacific suggest that no single factor regulates primary productivity. Rather, an interplay of bottom-up (i.e., ecophysiological) and top-down (i.e., ecological) factors appear to control species composition and growth rates. One goal of biological oceanography is to isolate the effects of single factors from this multiplicity of interactions, and to identify the factors with a disproportionate impact. Unfortunately, our tools, with several notable exceptions, have been largely inadequate to the task. In particular, the standard technique of nutrient addition bioassays cannot be undertaken without introducing artifacts. These so-called ‘bottle effects’ include reducing turbulence, isolating the enclosed sample from nutrient resupply and grazing, trapping the isolated sample at a fixed position within the water column and thus removing it from vertical movement through a light gradient, and exposing the sample to potentially stimulatory or inhibitory substances on the enclosure walls. The problem faced by all users of enrichment experiments is to separate the effects of controlled nutrient additions from uncontrolled changes in other environmental and ecological factors. To overcome these limitations, oceanographers have sought physiological or molecular indices to diagnose nutrient limitation in natural samples. These indices are often based on reductions in the abundance of photosynthetic and other catalysts, or on changes in the efficiency of these catalysts. Reductions in photosynthetic efficiency often accompany nutrient limitation either because of accumulation of damage, or impairment of the ability to synthesize fully functional macromolecular assemblages. Many catalysts involved in electron transfer and reductive biosyntheses contain iron, and the abundances of most of these catalysts decline under iron-limited conditions. Reductions of ferredoxin or cytochrome f content, nitrate assimilation rates, and dinitrogen fixation rates are amongst the diagnostics that have been used to infer iron limitation in some marine systems. An alternative approach to diagnosing iron-limitation uses molecules whose abundance increases in response to iron-limitation. These include cell surface iron-transport proteins, and the electron transfer protein flavodoxin which replaces the Fe-S protein ferredoxin in many Fe-deficient algae and cyanobacteria.
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    Molecular topology of the Photosystem II chlorophyll a binding protein, CP 43: Topology of a thylakoid membrane protein (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 40 (1994), S. 11-19 
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    Keywords: photosynthesis ; membrane protein ; protein structure ; light harvesting
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    Notes: Abstract We have used antibodies generated against synthetic peptides to determine the topology of the 43 kD chlorophyll a binding protein (CP 43) of Photosystem II. Based on the pattern of proteolytic fragments detected (on western blots) by peptide specific antibodies, a six transmembrane span topological model, with the amino and carboxyl termini located on the stromal membrane surface, is predicted. This structure is similar to that predicted for CP 47, a PS II chlorophyll a binding protein (Bricker T (1990) Photosynth Res 24: 1–13). The model is discussed in reference to the possible location of chlorophyll binding sites.
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    The Wageningen Rhizolab — a facility to study soil-root-shoot-atmosphere interactions in crops (1994)
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    Plant and soil 161 (1994), S. 275-287 
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    Keywords: crop growth ; gas exchange ; minirhizotrons ; nutrients ; photosynthesis ; respiration ; rhizotron ; root observation ; root growth ; water balance
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Abstract A research facility is described for the integrated study of soil-root-shoot-atmosphere relationships in crops. The Wageningen Rhizolab has been in use since 1990, and consists of two rows, each with eight below-ground compartments aligned along a corridor. A rain shelter automatically covers the experimental area at the start of rainfall. Compartments are 125 cm × 125 cm and 200 cm deep. Each compartment has a separate drip irrigation system. Crop canopy photosynthesis, respiration, and transpiration can be measured simultaneously and continuously on four out of eight compartments at a time. Each compartment can be filled with a selected soil material (repacked soil) and is accessible from the corridor over its full depth. Multiple sensors for measuring soil moisture status, electrical conductivity, temperature, soil respiration, trace gases and oxygen are installed in spatial patterns in accordance with the requirements of the experiments. Sensors are connected to control and data-acquisition devices. Likewise, provisions have been made to sample manually the soil solution and soil atmosphere. Root observation tubes (minirhizotrons) are installed horizontally at depth intervals ranging from 5 cm (upper soil layers) to 25 cm (below 1 m). The facility is at present in use to study growth and development of vegetation (crops) in relation to drought, nutrient status, soil-borne diseases, and underground root competition. One important application is the study of elevated CO2 concentration and climate change and the way they affect crops and their carbon economy. Growth and development of field grown vegetables and winter cover crops are also evaluated. The common aspect of those studies is to gain a better understanding of crop growth under varying environmental conditions, and to collect datasets that may help to improve mechanistic crop growth simulation models that can address suboptimal growth conditions.
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    Effects of nitrogen supply on the acclimation of photosynthesis to elevated CO2 (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 39 (1994), S. 389-400 
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    Keywords: elevated CO2 ; nitrogen supply ; photosynthesis ; acclimation ; growth
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    Notes: Abstract A common observation in plants grown in elevated CO2 concentration is that the rate of photosynthesis is lower than expected from the dependence of photosynthesis upon CO2 concentration in single leaves of plants grown at present CO2 concentration. Furthermore, it has been suggested that this apparent down regulation of photosynthesis may be larger in leaves of plants at low nitrogen supply than at higher nitrogen supply. However, the available data are rather limited and contradictory. In this paper, particular attention is drawn to the way in which whole plant growth response to N supply constitutes a variable sink strength for carbohydrate usage and how this may affect photosynthesis. The need for further studies of the acclimation of photosynthesis at elevated CO2 in leaves of plants whose N supply has resulted in well-defined growth rate and sink activity is emphasised, and brief consideration is made of how this might be achieved.
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    The influence of ammonia on the growth and photosynthesis of Ruppia drepanensis Tineo from Doñana National Park (SW Spain) (1994)
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    Hydrobiologia 275-276 (1994), S. 219-231 
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    Keywords: Ruppia drepanensis ; ammonia toxicity ; temperature effects ; photosynthesis ; growth
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    Notes: Abstract In a laboratory experiment, Ruppia drepanensis Tineo seedlings from a brackish marsh in Southern Spain were grown at 20 and 30 °C, at three different nitrogen levels. These levels were obtained by the addition of a slow release fertilizer (23% NH4NO3 by weight) to a sediment mixture of sand and clay (3:1). Several morphometric parameters were recorded during the first five weeks of the experiment, and photosynthesis and respiration were measured after 7 weeks of growth. Results showed a significant reduction of growth and development with increasing nitrogen and temperature levels. Dark respiration increased strongly at high nitrogen levels. At the same time, net photosynthesis at 250 and 500 µE m-2 s-1, Pm, Km and LCP were not affected by either factor. We attribute these phenomena to ammonia toxicity, since relatively high total ammonia (NH3 + NHf4 p+) levels were found in the interstitial water.
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    Environmental control of phytoplankton productivity in turbulent turbid systems (1994)
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    Hydrobiologia 289 (1994), S. 65-72 
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    Keywords: photosynthesis ; selective environments ; resuspension ; disturbance ; rivers ; shallow lakes
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    Notes: Abstract Factors affecting phytoplankton productivity are analysed in turbid systems, such as shallow lakes and rivers. When resuspension from the sediment or loading from the catchment significantly increases inorganic (non-algal) turbidity and hence light attenuation potentials for high production are not realised. Energy available for phytoplankton growth is strongly regulated by underwater light availability which depends on the critical mixing depth, fluctuating light intensities and algal circulation patterns. Higher production rates in shallow waters are often compensated by greater algal respiration due to higher water temperatures when compared to deeper lakes. Total daily integral production of turbulent, turbid environments can be predicted from a combination of easily measured variables such as maximum photosynthetic rates, algal biomass, surface irradiance and some measure of underwater light attenuation.
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    Effects of homobrassinolide application on plant metabolism and grain yield under irrigated and moisture-stress conditions of two wheat varieties (1994)
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    Plant growth regulation 14 (1994), S. 173-181 
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    Keywords: homobrassinolide ; irrigated ; membrane stability ; moisture-stress ; nitrate reductase activity ; photosynthesis ; Triticum aestivum
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Abstract Homobrassinolide (BR) was applied either as a seed treatment or foliar spray to two contrasting wheat varieties, viz. C306 (drought tolerant) and HD2329 (drought susceptible), to examine its effects on plant metabolism and grain yield under irrigated and moisture-stress/rainfed conditions. BR application resulted in increased relative water content, nitrate reductase activity, chlorophyll content and photosynthesis under both conditions. BR application also improved membrane stability (lower injury). These beneficial effects resulted in higher leaf area, biomass production, grain yield and yield related parameters in the treated plants. All the treatments were significantly better than the untreated control. Generally, 0.05 ppm either as a seed treatment or foliar spray was more effective than the 0.01 ppm treatment. The drought-tolerant genotype C306 showed more response to BR application under moisture-stress/rainfed condition than HD 2329. Increased water uptake, membrane stability and higher carbon dioxide and nitrogen assimilation rates under stress seemed to be related to homobrassinolide-induced drought tolerance.
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    Development and ecological importance of phytoplankton in a large lowland river (River Meuse, Belgium) (1994)
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    Hydrobiologia 289 (1994), S. 139-155 
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    Keywords: potamoplankton ; regulated river ; transport of carbon and nutrients ; photosynthesis ; respiration ; dynamics
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    Notes: Abstract The ecological importance of the River Meuse phytoplankton with regard to carbon and nutrient transport has been examined in two reaches of the Belgian course of the river. Field measurements of total particulate organic carbon (POC), particulate organic nitrogen (PON) and particulate phosphorus (PP) show that the large autochtonous production of organic matter strongly affects the carbon and nutrient budget of the aquatic system. During the growing season, phytoplankton accounts for nearly 60% of the POC and dominates the PON. Calculations of the carbon and oxygen budget in the upper reach of the Belgian Meuse demonstrates that the ecosystem is autotrophic, i.e. that autochtonous FPOM (fine particulate organic matter) production is the major carbon input. This suggests that in large lowland rivers, primary production (P) may exceed community respiration (R), i.e. P:R〉1, whereas they are assumed to be heterotrophic (P:R〈1) in the River Continuum concept. The question of maintenance of phytoplankton in turbid mixed water columns is also addressed, and the case of the River Meuse is treated on the basis of studies of photosynthesis and respiration (ETS measurements). The results suggest that the potamoplankton may show some low-light acclimation, through an increase of chlorophyll a relative to biomass, when it comes to deep downstream reaches, and that algal respiration rate may be reduced. A simulation of the longitudinal development of the algal biomass shows the different phases of algal growth and decline along the river and brings support to the ‘importation hypothesis’ for explaining maintenance of potamoplankton in the downstream reaches.
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    An active Mehler-peroxidase reaction sequence can prevent cyclic PS I electron transport in the presence of dioxygen in intact spinach chloroplasts (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 41 (1994), S. 429-437 
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    Keywords: photosynthesis ; ascorbate peroxidase ; Mehler reaction ; cyclic PS I ; chlorophyll fluorescence ; 9-aminoacridine fluorescence
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    Notes: Abstract Simultaneous measurements of 9-aminoacridine (9-AA) fluorescence quenching, O2-uptake and chlorophyll fluorescence of intact spinach chloroplasts were carried out to assess the relationship between the transthylakoidal ΔpH and linear electron flux passing through Photosystem II. Three different types of O2-dependent electron flow were investigated: (1) Catalysed by methyl viologen; (2) in the absence of a catalyst and presence of an active ascorbate peroxidase (Mehler-peroxidase reaction); (3) in the absence of a catalyst and with the ascorbate peroxidase being inhibited by KCN (Mehler reaction). The aim of this study was to assess the relative contribution of ΔpH-formation which is not associated with electron flow through Photosystem II and, which should reflect Photosystem I cyclic flow under the different conditions. The relationship between the extent of 9-AA fluorescence quenching and O2-uptake rate was found to be almost linear when methyl viologen was present. In the absence of methyl viologen (Mehler reaction) an increase of 9-AA fluorescence quenching to a value of 20% at low light intensities was associated with considerably less O2-uptake than in the presence of methyl viologen, indicating the involvement of cyclic flow. These findings are in agreement with a preceding study of Kobayashi and Heber (1994). However, when no KCN was added, such that the complete Mehler-peroxidase reaction sequence was operative, the relationship between 9-AA fluorescence quenching and the flux through PS II, as measured via the chlorophyll fluorescence parameter ΔF/Fm′ × PAR, was identical to that observed in the presence of methyl viologen. Under the assumption that methyl viologen prevents cyclic flow, it is concluded that there is no significant contribution of cyclic electron flow to ΔpH-generation in intact spinach chloroplasts.
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    Effects of two sesquiterpene lactones isolated fromArtemisia annua on physiology ofLemna minor (1994)
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    Journal of chemical ecology 20 (1994), S. 969-978 
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    Keywords: Artemisinin ; arteannuic acid ; photosynthesis ; respiration ; chlorophyll ; Lemna minor
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    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract The effects of artemisinin and arteannuic acid extracted fromArtemisia annua on the physiology ofLemna minor were evaluated. Changes in frond production, growth, dry weight, and chlorophyll content ofL. minor were determined. Photosynthesis and respiration were evaluated with a differential respirometer. Artemisinin (5 µM) inhibitedL. minor frond production and dry weight 82 and 83%, relative to methanol controls. Chlorophyll content was reduced 44% by artemisinin (2.5 µM). Arteannuic acid (10 µM) was less active, inhibiting frond production 61% and reducing chlorophyll content 66% at 5 µM. Artemisinin (1 µM) reducedL. minor photosynthesis 30% and 2.5 µM reduced respiration 39%. Arteannuic acid had no significant effect on photosynthesis or respiration at the levels tested.
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    Photosynthetic electron transport and anaerobic metabolism in purple non-sulfur phototrophic bacteria (1994)
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    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 66 (1994), S. 151-164 
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    Keywords: purple non-sulfur bacteria ; Rhodobacter ; photosynthesis ; CO2 fixation ; anaerobic respiration ; gene expression
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    Notes: Abstract Purple non-sulfur phototrophic bacteria, exemplifed byRhodobacter capsulatus andRhodobacter sphaeroides, exhibit a remarkable versatility in their anaerobic metabolism. In these bacteria the photosynthetic apparatus, enzymes involved in CO2 fixation and pathways of anaerobic respiration are all induced upon a reduction in oxygen tension. Recently, there have been significant advances in the understanding of molecular properties of the photosynthetic apparatus and the control of the expression of genes involved in photosynthesis and CO2 fixation. In addition, anaerobic respiratory pathways have been characterised and their interaction with photosynthetic electron transport has been described. This review will survey these advances and will discuss the ways in which photosynthetic electron transport and oxidation-reduction processes are integrated during photoautotrophic and photoheterotrophic growth.
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    Protein structure, electron transfer and evolution of prokaryotic photosynthetic reaction centers (1994)
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    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 65 (1994), S. 311-329 
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    Keywords: photosynthesis ; chlorophyll ; bacteriochlorophyll ; reaction center ; electron transfer ; evolution
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    Notes: Abstract Photosynthetic reaction centers from a variety of organisms have been isolated and characterized. The groups of prokaryotic photosynthetic organisms include the purple bacteria, the filamentous green bacteria, the green sulfur bacteria and the heliobacteria as anoxygenic representatives as well as the cyanobacteria and prochlorophytes as oxygenic representatives. This review focuses on structural and functional comparisons of the various groups of photosynthetic reaction centers and considers possible evolutionary scenarios to explain the diversity of existing photosynthetic organisms.
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    Genetic variation for resistance to low-temperature photoinhibition of photosynthesis in maize (Zea mays L.) (1994)
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    Euphytica 80 (1994), S. 85-93 
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    Keywords: maize ; Zea mays ; photoinhibition ; photosynthesis ; low-temperature adaptation ; breeding
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    Notes: Summary Sixty-seven inbred lines of maize were evaluated for resistance to low-temperature photoinhibition of photosynthesis, using a pulse-modulated chlorophyll fluorescence technique. The evaluation procedure was based on leaf discs, which were exposed to a high irradiance (1000 µmol/m2/s) at 7°C. The efficiency of open PSII reaction centres as a reflection of overall photosynthesis was measured before and after a photoinhibition-inducing treatment. Exposure of leaf discs to photoinhibitory condition for 2, 4, and 8 hours resulted in an efficiency reduction of 30, 53 and 83%, respectively. Testing of inbred lines showed large differences for photoinhibition susceptibility. The difference in photosynthetic efficiency between the most extreme lines after a treatment of eight hours was 39%. Resistance to photoinhibition was shown to be relevant under cool field conditions. It proved to be a trait strongly amenable to selection.
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    Optimal acclimation of the C3 photosynthetic system under enhanced CO2 (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 39 (1994), S. 401-412 
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    Keywords: photosynthesis ; elevated CO2 ; source-sink interactions ; Rubisco
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    Notes: Abstract A range of studies of C3 plants have shown that there is a change in both the carbon flux and the pattern of nitrogen allocation when plants are grown under enhanced CO2. This paper examines evidence that allocation of nitrogen both to and within the photosynthetic system is optimised with respect to the carbon flux. A model is developed which predicts the optimal relative allocation of nitrogen to key enzymes of the photosynthetic system as a function of CO2 concentration. It is shown that evidence from flux control analysis is broadly consistent with this model, although at high nitrogen and under certain conditions at low nitrogen experimental data are not consistent with the model. Acclimation to enhanced CO2 is also assessed in terms of resource allocation between photosynthate sources and sinks. A means of assessing the optimisation of this source-sink allocation is proposed, and several studies are examined within this framework. It is concluded that C3 plants probably possess the genetic feedback mechanisms required to efficiently ‘smooth out” any imbalance within the photosynthetic system caused by a rise in atmospheric CO2.
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    Biochemical and molecular basis for impairment of photosynthetic potential (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 39 (1994), S. 453-462 
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    Keywords: photosynthesis ; Rubisco ; ozone ; oxidative stress ; rbcS mRNA
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    Notes: Abstract Ozone induces reductions in net photosynthesis in a large number of plant species. A primary mechanism by which photosynthesis is reduced is through impact on carbon dioxide fixation. Ozone induces loss in Rubisco activity associated with loss in concentration of the protein. Evidence is presented that ozone may induce oxidative modification of Rubisco leading to subsequent proteolysis. In addition, plants exposed to ozone sustain reduction in rbcS, the mRNA for the small subunit of Rubisco. This loss in rbcS mRNA may lead to a reduced potential for synthesis of the protein. The regulation of O3-induced loss of Rubisco, and implications of the decline in this protein in relation to accelerated senescence are discussed.
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    Reminiscence about‘Chloropseudomonas ethylicum’ and the FMO-protein (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 41 (1994), S. 3-5 
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    Keywords: bacteriochlorophylla-protein ; green sulfur bacteria ; Prosthecochloris aestuarii ; Chlorobium limicola ; photosynthesis
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    Notes: Abstract In 1961 the green sulfur bacterium-containing mixed culture known as‘Chloropseudomonas ethylicum’ was brought to Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA) from Moscow State University (USSR). The water-soluble bacteriochlorophylla-protein (FMO-protein) was extracted, purified and characterized by absorption and circular dichroism spectroscopy, by X-ray crystallography and by primary structure determination.
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    Rates of vectorial proton transport supported by cyclic electron flow during oxygen reduction by illuminated intact chloroplasts (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 41 (1994), S. 419-428 
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    Keywords: 9-aminoacridine fluorescence ; cyclic electron transport ; Mehler reaction ; photosynthesis ; photosystems ; transthylakoid proton gradient
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    Notes: Abstract The light-dependent quenching of 9-aminoacridine fluorescence was used to monitor the state of the transthylakoid proton gradient in illuminated intact chloroplasts in the presence or absence of external electron acceptors. The absence of appreciable light-dependent fluorescence quenching under anaerobic conditions indicated inhibition of coupled electron transport in the absence of external electron acceptors. Oxygen relieved this inhibition. However, when DCMU inhibited excessive reduction of the plastoquinone pool in the absence of oxygen, coupled cyclic electron transport supported the formation of a transthylakoid proton gradient even under anaerobiosis. This proton gradient collapsed in the presence of oxygen. Under aerobic conditions, and when KCN inhibited ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase and ascorbate peroxidase, fluorescence quenching indicated the formation of a transthylakoid proton gradient which was larger with oxygen in the Mehler reaction as electron acceptor than with methylviologen at similar rates of linear electron transport. Apparently, cyclic electron transport occured simultaneously with linear electron transport, when oxygen was available as electron acceptor, but not when methylviologen accepted electrons from Photosystem I. The ratio of cyclic to linear electron transport could be increased by low concentrations of DCMU. This shows that even under aerobic conditions cyclic electron transport is limited in isolated intact chloroplasts by excessive reduction of electron carriers. In fact, P700 in the reaction center of Photosystem I remained reduced in illuminated isolated chloroplasts under conditions which resulted in extensive oxidation of P700 in leaves. This shows that regulation of Photosystem II activity is less effective in isolated chloroplasts than in leaves. Assuming that a Q-cycle supports a H+/e ratio of 3 during slow linear electron transport, vectorial proton transport coupled to Photosystem I-dependent cyclic electron flow could be calculated. The highest calculated rate of Photosystem I-dependent proton transport, which was not yet light-saturated, was 330 μmol protons (mg chlorophyll h)−1 in intact chloroplasts. If H+/e is not three but two proton transfer is not 330 but 220 μmol (mg Chl H)−1. Differences in the regulation of cyclic electron transport in isolated chloroplasts and in leaves are discussed.
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    Pigment orientation changes accompanying the light state transition in Synechococcus sp. PCC 6301 (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 40 (1994), S. 35-44 
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    Keywords: allophycocyanin ; chlorophyll a ; linear dichroism ; phycobilisome ; photosynthesis ; state transition
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    Notes: Abstract Low temperature (77 K) linear dichroism spectroscopy was used to characterize pigment orientation changes accompanying the light state transition in the cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. PCC 6301 and those accompanying chromatic acclimation in Porphyridium cruentum in samples stabilized by glutaraldehyde fixation. In light state 2 compared to light state 1 intact cells of Synechococcus showed an increased alignment of allophycocyanin parallel to the cells' long axis whereas the phycobilisomethylakoid membrane fragments exhibited an increased allophycocyanin alignment parallel to the membrane plane. The phycobilisome-thylakoid membrane fragments showed less alignment of a short wave-length chlorophyll a (Chl a) Qy transition dipole parallel to the membrane plane in state 2 relative to state 1. To aid identification of the observed Chl a orientation changes in Synechococcus, linear dichroism spectra were obtained from phycobilisome-thylakoid membrane fragments isolated from red light-grown (increased number of PS II centres) and green light-grown (increased number of PS I centres) cells of the red alga Porphyridium cruentum. An increased contribution of short wavelength Chl a Qy transition dipoles parallel to the long axis of the membrane plane was directly correlated with increased levels of PS II centres in red light-grown P. cruentum. Our results indicate that the transition to state 2 in cyanobacteria is accompanied by an increase in the orientation of allophycocyanin and a decrease in the orientation of Chl a associated with PS II with respect to the thylakoid membrane plane.
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    Photoinhibition of photosynthesis in chilled potato leaves is not correlated with a loss of Photosystem-II activity (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 40 (1994), S. 75-92 
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    Keywords: chilling temperature ; oxygen toxicity ; photoinhibition ; photosynthesis ; photosystems ; superoxide dismutase
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    Notes: Abstract When 23 °C-grown potato leaves (Solanum tuberosum L.) were irradiated at 23 °C with a strong white light, photosynthetic electron transport and Photosystem-II (PS II) activity were inhibited in parallel. When the light treatment was given at a low temperature of 3 °C, the photoinhibition of photosynthesis was considerably enhanced, as expected. Surprisingly, no such stimulation of photoinhibition was observed with respect to the PS II function. A detailed functional analysis of the photosynthetic apparatus, using in-vivo fluorescence, absorbance, oxygen and photoacoustic measurements, and artificial electron donors/acceptors, showed a pronounced alteration of PS I activity during light stress at low temperature. More precisely, it was observed that both the pool of photooxidizeable reaction center pigment (P700) of PS I and the efficiency of PS I to oxidize P700 were dramatically reduced. Loss of P700 activity was shown to be essentially dependent on atmospheric O2 and to require a continued flow of electrons from PS II, suggesting the involvement of the superoxide anion radical which is produced by the interaction of O2 and the photosynthetic electron-transfer chain through the Mehler reaction. Mass spectrometric measurements of O2 exchange by potato leaves under strong illumination did not reveal, however, any stimulation of the Mehler reaction at low temperature, thus leading to the conclusion that O2 toxicity mainly resulted from a chilling-induced inhibition of the scavenging system for O2-radicals. Support for this interpretation was provided by the light response of potato leaves infiltrated with an inhibitor (diethyldithiocarbamate) of the chloroplastic Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase. It was indeed possible to simulate the differential inhibition of the PS II photochemical activity and the linear electron transport observed during light stress at low temperature by illuminating at 23 °C diethyldithiocarbamate-poisoned leaves. The experimental data presented here suggests that (i) the previously reported resistance of PS I to photoinhibition damage in-vivo is not an intrinsic property of PS I but results from efficient protective systems against O2 toxicity, (ii) PS I is photoinhibited in chilled potato leaf due to the inactivation of this PS I defence system and (iii) PS I is more sensitive to superoxide anion radicals than PS II.
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    Sixty years in algal physiology and photosynthesis (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 40 (1994), S. 207-221 
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    Keywords: photosynthesis ; unicellular algae ; ion effects ; manganese ; blue light ; synchronized growth ; algal mass cultures
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    Notes: Abstract This personal perspective records research experiences in chemistry and biology at four German universities, two before and two after World War II. The research themes came from cytophysiology of green unicellular algae, in particular their photosynthesis. The function of inorganic ions in photosynthesis and dark respiration was investigated at different degrees of specific mineral stress (deficiencies), and the kinetics of recovery followed after the addition of the missing element. Two types of recovery of photosynthesis were observed: indirect restitution via growth processes and immediate normalisation. From the latter case (K+, phosphate, Mn++) the effect of manganese was emphasized as its role in photosynthetic O2 evolution became established during our research. Other themes of our group, with some bearing on photosynthesis were: synchronization of cell growth by light-dark change and effects of blue (vs. red) light on the composition of green cells. Some experiences in connection with algal mass cultures are included. Discussion of several editorial projects shows how photosynthesis, as an orginally separated field of plant biochemistry and biophysics, became included into general cell physiology and even ecophysiology of green plants. The paper contains an appreciation of the authors' main mentor Kurt Noack (1888–1963) and of Ernst Georg Pringsheim (1881–1970), founder of experimental phycology.
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    Gene nomenclature recommendations for green photosynthetic bacteria and heliobacteria (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 41 (1994), S. 27-28 
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    Keywords: photosynthesis ; reaction center ; green bacteria ; heliobacteria ; gene ; chlorosome ; cytochrome
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    Notes: Abstract Recommendations are given for naming of genes coding for reaction center, antenna and electron transport proteins in green photosynthetic bacteria and heliobacteria
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    Redox effects on the bacteriochlorophyll α-containing Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein fromChlorobium tepidum (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 41 (1994), S. 89-96 
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    Keywords: photosynthesis ; Chlorobium tepidum ; antenna ; bacteriochlorophylla protein ; energy transfer ; chlorosome ; green bacteria
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    Notes: Abstract The BChla-containing Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) protein from the green sulfur bacteriumChlorobium tepidum was purified and characterized. Fluorescence spectra indicate that efficient excited state quenching occurs at neutral or oxidizing redox potentials. The major fluorescence lifetime at room temperature is approximately 60 ps in samples that are in neutral or oxidizing conditions, and approximately 2 ns in samples where the strong reductant sodium dithionite has been added. A similar change is observed in pump-probe picosecond absorbance difference experiments, where the long life time component increases after dithionite addition. A 16 Gauss wide EPR signal with g factor =2.005 is observed in samples without dithionite. This signal largely disappears upon addition of dithionite. Dithionite induces large reversibile changes in the 77 K absorbance spectra of the purified FMO protein and in whole cells. These results indicate that the FMO protein contains redox active groups, which may be involved in the regulation of energy transfer. Room temperature circular dichroism and low temperature absorption spectra show that dithionite also induces conformational or structural changes of the FMO protein complex.
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    Responses to drought and flooding in tropical forage grasses (1994)
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    Plant and soil 164 (1994), S. 97-105 
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    Keywords: alcohol dehydrogenase ; drought ; flooding ; photosynthesis ; tropical grasses ; water potential
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Abstract Long dry seasons or permanent flooding, typical of tropical savannas, severely limit the growth of pasture plants. This study compares the responses of water relations, carbon assimilation and alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) activity to drought and flooding in four perennial C4 grasses: the tufted or caespitose Hyparrhenia rufa and Andropogon gayanus (CIAT 621) and the stoloniferous Brachiaria mutica and Echinochloa polystachya. Plants of the four species were subjected to medium term flooding (20–25 days) and moderate drought in a greenhouse. Leaf water potential (Ψ), stomatal conductance (Gs) and photosynthesis rate (Pn) were measured throughout the experiment and ADH activity was measured in flooded and control plants. Moderate drought produced similar effects in all grasses reducing Gs which caused reduced Pn. Net photosynthesis compensation point was reached at the lowest Ψ in A. gayanus which was considered as the most drought tolerant. The responses to flooding varied across species. Andropogon gayanus and H. rufa showed early stomatal closure without concurrent decrease in Ψ and leaf turgor. This low Gs was responsible of reduced Pn and growth rate. There was a slight increase of Gs in the middle of the flooding period and both grasses recovered pre-stress Gs and Pn after drainage. ADH activity increased markedly only in A. gayanus under flooding suggesting that this grass was the most flood-sensitive. Stomatal aperture, Pn and ADH activity in B. mutica and E. polystachya were not affected by flooding. The higher flood-tolerance in these grasses might be attributed to enhanced oxygen diffusion to the roots through the hollow stolons, development of advantitious rootlets and large aerenchyma in the roots which compensate for the reduction of soil oxygen and permit the maintenance of root activity.
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    Gene action and heritability for photosynthetic activity in two wheat crosses (1994)
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    Euphytica 76 (1994), S. 235-238 
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    Keywords: Triticum aestivum ; wheat ; photosynthesis ; gene action ; heritability
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    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary Gene action and heritability for photosynthetic activity were estimated from generation means in two wheat crosses during two stages (5 th leaf and flag leaf between 2 and 5 days after anthesis). Six generations were available for each cross: parents (P1 and P2), F1, F2 and backcrosses (BC1 and BC2). Correlations between some morphophysiological characters and photosynthetic activity of the flag leaf was also determined. The joint scaling test described by Mather & Jinks was used to determine the gene action. It showed that them; [d]; [h]; [i], [l] (mean, additivity, dominance, additive x additive interallelic interaction effects, dominance x dominance interallelic interaction effects) model fits the two crosses at both measurement times. All the model genetic components were significant for the flag leaf, however for the 5 th leaf only [h]; [i] and [l] were significant. The presence of additive and additive x additive effects suggested the possibility of selecting for this character using the flag leaf so as to obtain pure inbred lines. Dominance effects [h] were negative and dominance x dominance effects [l] were positive. Broad sense heritability values were medium to low. There were no correlations between the studied morphophysiological characters and the photosynthetic activity.
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    Singlet oxygen production in thylakoid membranes during photoinhibition as detected by EPR spectroscopy (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 39 (1994), S. 191-199 
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    Keywords: photoinhibition ; photosynthesis ; protein degradation ; singlet oxygen ; TEMP (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine) ; thylakoid
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    Notes: Abstract Exposure of isolated spinach thylakoids to high intensity illumination (photoinhibition) results in the well-characterized impairment of Photosystem II electron transport, followed by degradation of the D1 reaction centre protein. In the present study we demonstrate that this process is accompanied by singlet oxygen production. Singlet oxygen was detected by EPR spectroscopy, following the formation of stable nitroxide radicals from the trapping of singlet oxygen with a sterically hindered amine TEMP (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine). There was no detectable singlet oxygen production during anaerob photoinhibition or in the presence of sodium-azide. Comparing the kinetics of the loss of PS II function and D1 protein with that of singlet oxygen trapping suggests that singlet oxygen itself or its radical product initiates the degradation of D1.
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    Changes in the antenna size of Photosystem I and Photosystem II in Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942 grown in the presence of SANDOZ 9785 — a Photosystem II inhibitor (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 41 (1994), S. 303-313 
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    Keywords: cyanobacteria ; excitation energy ; herbicide ; photochemical apparatus ; photosynthesis ; pyridazinone
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    Notes: Abstract SANDOZ 9785, also known as BASF 13.338, is a pyridazinone derivative that inhibits Photosystem II (PS II) activity leading to an imbalance in the rate of electron transport through the photosystems. Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942 cells grown in the presence of sublethal concentration of SANDOZ 9785 (SAN 9785) for 48 hours exhibited a 20% decrease in Chl a per cell. However, no changes were observed in the content of phycocyanin per cell, the size of the phycobilisomes or in the PS II:PS I ratio. From an estimate of PS II electron transport rate under varying light intensities and spectral qualities and analysis of room temperature Chl a fluorescence induction, it was deduced that growth of Synechococcus PCC 7942 in the presence of SAN 9785 leads to a redistribution of excitation energy in favour of PS II. Though the redistribution appears to be primarily caused by changes affecting the Chl a antenna of PS II, the extent of energetic coupling between phycobilisomes and PS II is also enhanced in SAN 9785 grown Synechococcus PCC 7942 cells. There was a reduction in the effective size of PS I antenna based on measurement of P700 photooxidation kinetics. These results indicate that when PS II is partially inhibited, the structure of photosynthetic apparatus alters to redistribute the excitation energy in favour of PS II so that the efficiency of utilization of light energy by the two photosystems is optimized. Our results suggest that under the conditions used, drastic structural changes are not essential for redistribution of excitation energy between the photosystems.
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    Acclimation of photosynthesis to increasing atmospheric CO2: The gas exchange perspective (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 39 (1994), S. 351-368 
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    Keywords: CO2 enrichment ; gas exchange ; greenhouse effect ; photosynthesis ; responses to CO2
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    Notes: Abstract The nature of photosynthetic acclimation to elevated CO2 is evaluated from the results of over 40 studies focusing on the effect of long-term CO2 enrichment on the short-term response of photosynthesis to intercellular CO2 (the A/Ci response). The effect of CO2 enrichment on the A/Ci response was dependent on growth conditions, with plants grown in small pots (〈 5 L) or low nutrients usually exhibiting a reduction of A at a given Ci, while plants grown without nutrient deficiency in large pots or in the field tended to exhibit either little reduction or an enhancement of A at a given Ci following a doubling or tripling of atmospheric CO2 during growth. Using theoretical interpretations of A/Ci curves to assess acclimation, it was found that when pot size or nutrient deficiency was not a factor, changes in the shape of A/Ci curves which are indicative of a reallocation of resources within the photosynthetic apparatus typically were not observed. Long-term CO2 enrichment usually had little effect or increased the value of A at all Ci. However, a minority of species grown at elevated CO2 exhibited gas exchange responses indicative of a reduced amount of Rubisco and an enhanced capacity to metabolize photosynthetic products. This type of response was considered beneficial because it enhanced both photosynthetic capacity at high CO2 and reduced resource investment in excessive Rubisco capacity. The ratio of intercellular to ambient CO2 (the Ci/Ca ratio) was used to evaluate stomatal acclimation. Except under water and humidity stress, Ci/Ca exhibited no consistent change in a variety of C3 species, indicating no stomatal acclimation. Under drought or humidity stress, Ci/Ca declined in high-CO2 grown plants, indicating stomata will become more conservative during stress episodes in future high CO2 environments.
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    Effects of UV-B radiation on photosynthesis and growth of terrestrial plants (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 39 (1994), S. 463-473 
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    Keywords: global climate change ; ozone depletion ; photosynthesis ; Photosystem II ; productivity ; UV-B radiation
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    Notes: Abstract The photosynthetic apparatus of some plant species appears to be well-protected from direct damage from UV-B radiation. Leaf optical properties of these species apparently minimizes exposure of sensitive targets to UV-B radiation. However, damage by UV-B radiation to Photosystem II and Rubisco has also been reported. Secondary effects of this damage may include reductions in photosynthetic capacity, RuBP regeneration and quantum yield. Furthermore, UV-B radiation may decrease the penetration of PAR, reduce photosynthetic and accessory pigments, impair stomatal function and alter canopy morphology, and thus indirectly retard photosynthetic carbon assimilation. Subsequently, UV-B radiation may limit productivity in many plant species. In addition to variability in sensitivity to UV-B radiation, the effects of UV-B radiation are further confounded by other environmental factors such as CO2, temperature, light and water or nutrient availability. Therefore, we need a better understanding of the mechanisms of tolerance to UV-B radiation and of the interaction between UV-B and other environmental factors in order to adequately assess the probable consequences of a change in solar radiation.
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    State adaptations in the cyanobacterium Synechcoccus 6301 (PCC): Dependence on light intensity or spectral composition? (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 40 (1994), S. 107-117 
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    Keywords: photosynthesis ; state adaptations ; shade adaptation ; cyanobacteria
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    Notes: Abstract A profile of high light to intense self-shading conditions was constructed using a white light source and cultures of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus 6301; this profile approximates to a natural self-shading gradient of decreasing light intensity and PS II/PS I excitation ratio. Samples of S.6301 were placed along this profile and allowed to state adapt. To separate the effects of light intensity and wavelength on state adaptation, samples were also placed in a shade profile produced by a white light source and neutral density filters. After adaptation, samples were fixed in their resulting state by the addition of glutaraldehyde, and fluorescence measurements were made at 35° C or –160 °C. It is concluded: 1. Under conditions of deep shade (〈5 μmol m−2s−1 PAR) and weak shade (〉200 μmol m−2s−1 PAR), cells adapt to a low PS II fluorescence state (state 2); in moderate shade (20–60 μmol m−2s−1PAR) cells adapt to a high PS II fluorescence state (state 1). We suggest these findings provide evidence for the operation of different factors on the control of state adaptations in cyanobacteria; one set operates at low light and another at high light intensities. 2. Under conditions of self-shading, there is little evidence to support the contention that state adaptations in cyanobacteria are produced by wavelength-dependent changes in the PS II/PS I excitation ratio, instead, it appaers they are produced by changes in the intensity of incident irradiation. 3. The observed fluorescence changes do not appear to involve major changes in the phycobilisome sensitisation of PS II and PS I. Instead, it appears that these changes are effected by alterations in ΦF of PS II (i.e. changes in PS II excitation density caused by alterations in the rate constants controlling spillover to PS I, photochemistry, fluorescence emission or thermal deactivation.
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    An enzyme and13C-NMR study of carbon metabolism in heliobacteria (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 41 (1994), S. 75-88 
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    Keywords: photosynthesis ; carbon assimilation ; photosynthetic bacteria ; citric-acid cycle ; pyruvate synthase ; fermentation ; heliobacteria
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    Notes: Abstract Heliobacteria are a group of anoxygenic phototrophs that can grow photoheterotrophically in defined minimal media on only a limited range of organic substrates as carbon sources. In this study the mechanisms which operate to assimilate carbon and the routes employed for the biosynthesis of cellular intermediates were investigated in a newHeliobacterium strain, HY-3. This was achieved using two approaches (1) by measuring the activities of key enzymes in cell-free extracts and (2) by the use of13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to analyze in detail the labelling pattern of amino-acids of cells grown on [13C] pyruvate and [13C] acetate.Heliobacterium strain HY-3 was unable to grow autotrophically on CO2/H2 and neither (ATP)-citrate lyase nor ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBPcase) were detectable in cell-free extracts. The enzyme profile of pyruvate grown cells indicated the presence of a pyruvate:acceptor oxidoreductase at high specific activity which could convert pyruvate to acetyl-Coenzyme A. No pyridine nucleotide dependent pyruvate dehydrogenase complex activity was detected. Of the citric-acid cycle enzymes, malate dehydrogenase, fumarase, fumarate reductase and an NADP-specific isocitrate dehydrogenase were readily detectable but no aconitase or citrate synthase activity was found. However, the labelling pattern of glutamate in long-term 2-[13C] acetate incorporation experiments indicated that a mechanism exists for the conversion of carbon from acetyl-CoA into 2-oxoglutarate. A 2-oxoglutarate:acceptor oxidoreductase activity was present which was also assayable by isotope exchange, but no 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase complex activity could be detected. Heliobacteria appear to use a type of incomplete reductive carboxylic acid pathway for the conversion of pyruvate to 2-oxoglutarate but are unable to grow autotrophically using this metabolic route due to the absence of ATP-citrate lyase.
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    Spectroscopic evidence for the presence of an iron-sulfur center similar to Fx of Photosystem I inHeliobacillus mobilis (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 41 (1994), S. 115-123 
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    Keywords: photosynthesis ; bacteriochlorophyll ; electron acceptor ; iron-sulfur center ; Photosystem I ; heliobacteria
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    Notes: Abstract Treatment of membranes ofHeliobacillus mobilis with high concentrations of the chaotropic agent urea resulted in the removal of the iron-sulfur centers FA and FB from the reaction center, as indicated by EPR spectra under strongly reducing conditions. In urea-treated membranes, transient absorption measurements upon a laser flash indicated a recombination between the photo-oxidized primary donor P798+ and a reduced acceptor with a time constant of 20 ms at room temperature. Benzylviologen, vitamin K-3 and methylene blue were found to accept electrons from the reduced acceptor efficiently. A differential extinction coefficient of 225–240 mM−1 cm−1 at 798 nm was determined from experiments in the presence of methylene blue. Transient absorption difference spectra between 400 and 500 nm in the presence and absence of artificial acceptors indicated that the electron acceptor involved in the 20 ms recombination has an absorption spectrum similar to that of an iron-sulfur center. This iron-sulfur center was assigned to be analogous to FX of Photosystem I. Our results provide evidence in support of the presence of FX in heliobacteria, which was proposed on the basis of the reaction center polypeptide sequence (Liebl et al. (1993) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90: 7124–7128). Implications for the electron transfer pathway in the reaction center of heliobacteria are discussed.
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    Molecular organization of bacteriochlorophyll in chlorosomes of the green photosynthetic bacteriumChloroflexus aurantiacus: Studies of fluorescence depolarization accompanied by energy transfer processes (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 41 (1994), S. 181-191 
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    Keywords: energy transfer ; green bacteria ; photosynthesis ; picosecond spectroscopy ; pigment system ; (Chloroflexus aurantiacus)
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    Notes: Abstract Examination was made of changes in fluorescence polarization plane by energy transfer in the chlorosomes of the green photosynthetic bacterium,Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Fluorescence anisotropy in the picosecond (ps) time region was analyzed using chlorosomes suspended in solution as well as those oriented in a polyacrylamide gel. When the main component of BChlc was preferentially excited, the decay of fluorescence anisotropy was found to depend on wavelength. In the chlorosome suspension, the anisotropy ratio of BChlc changed from 0.31 to 0.24 within 100 ps following excitation. In the baseplate BChla region, this ratio decreased to a negative value (−0.09) from the initial 0.14. In oriented samples, the degree of polarization remained at 0.68 for BChlc, and changed from 0.25 to −0.40 for the baseplate BChla by excitation light whose electric vector was parallel to the longest axis of chlorosomes. In the latter case, there was a shift from 0.30 to −0.55 by excitation perpendicular to the longest axis. Time-resolved fluorescence polarization spectra clearly indicated extensive changes in polarization plane accompanied by energy transfer. The directions of polarization plane of emission from oriented samples were mostly dependent on chlorosome orientation in the gel but not on that of the polarization plane of excitation light. Orientations of the dipole moment of fluorescence components was consistent with that of absorption components as determined by the linear dichroism (Matsuura et al. (1993) Photochem. Photobiol. 57: 92–97). A model for molecular organization of BChlc anda in chlorosomes is proposed based on anisotropic optical properties.
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    Evolution of heliobacteria: Implications for photosynthetic reaction center complexes (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 41 (1994), S. 285-294 
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    Keywords: heliobacteria ; reaction center ; photosynthesis ; 16S rRNA sequence ; cyanobacteria ; Gram-positive bacteria
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    Notes: Abstract The evolutionary position of the heliobacteria, a group of green photosynthetic bacteria with a photosynthetic apparatus functionally resembling Photosystem I of plants and cyanobacteria, has been investigated with respect to the evolutionary relationship to Gram-positive bacteria and cyanobacteria. On the basis of 16S rRNA sequence analysis, the heliobacteria appear to be most closely related to Gram-positive bacteria, but also an evolutionary link to cyanobacteria is evident. Interestingly, a 46-residue domain including the putative sixth membrane-spanning region of the heliobacterial reaction center protein shows rather strong similarity (33% identity and 72% similarity) to a region including the sixth membrane-spanning region of the CP47 protein, a chlorophyll-binding core antenna polypeptide of Photosystem II. The N-terminal half of the heliobacterial reaction center polypeptide shows a moderate sequence similarity (22% identity over 232 residues) with the CP47 protein, which is significantly more than the similarity with the Photosystem I core polypeptides in this region. An evolutionary model for photosynthetic reaction center complexes is discussed, in which an ancestral homodimeric reaction center protein (possibly resembling the heliobacterial reaction center protein) with 11 membrane-spanning regions per polypeptide has diverged to give rise to core of Photosystem I, Photosystem II, and of the photosynthetic apparatus in green, purple, and heliobacteria.
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    The photoproduction of superoxide radicals and the superoxide dismutase activity of Photosystem II. The possible involvement of cytochrome b559 (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 41 (1994), S. 327-338 
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    Keywords: photosynthesis ; Photosystem II ; superoxide radical ; superoxide dismutase
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    Notes: Abstract In the present study the light induced formation of superoxide and intrinsic superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity in PS II membrane fragments and D1/D2/Cytb559-complexes from spinach have been analyzed by the use of ferricytochrome c (cyt c(III)) reduction and xanthine/xanthine oxidase as assay systems. The following results were obtained: 1.) Photoreduction of Cyt c (III) by PS II membrane fragments is induced by addition of sodium azide, tetracyane ethylene (TCNE) or carbonylcyanide-p-trifluoromethoxy-phenylhydrazone (FCCP) and after removal of the extrinsic polypeptides by a 1M CaCl2-treatment. This activity which is absent in control samples becomes completely inhibited by the addition of exogenous SOD. 2.) The TCNE induced cyt c(III) photoreduction by PS II membrane fragments was found to be characterized by a half maximal concentration of c1/2=10 μM TCNE. Simultaneously, TCNE inhibits the oxygen evolution rate of PS II membrane fragments with c1/2≈ 3 μM. 3.) The photoproduction of O2 − is coupled with H+-uptake. This effect is diminished by the addition of the O2 −-trap cyt c(III). 4.) D1/D2/Cytb559-complexes and PS II membrane fragments deprived of the extrinsic proteins and manganese exhibit no SOD-activity but are capable of producing O2 − in the light if a PS II electron donor is added. Based on these results the site(s) of light induced superoxide formation in PS II is (are) inferred to be located at the acceptor side. A part of the PS II donor side and Cyt b559 in its HP-form are proposed to provide an intrinsic superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity.
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    Thermoluminescence as a probe of Photosystem II in intact leaves: Non-photochemical fluorescence quenching in peas grown in an intermittent light regime (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 41 (1994), S. 371-379 
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    Keywords: photosynthesis ; chlorophyll fluorescence ; high energy-state quenching ; calcium release
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    Notes: Abstract We have measured thermoluminescence (TL) and chlorophyll fluorescence from leaves of peas grown under an intermittent light regime (IML) and followed changes in those leaves during greening. IML peas show low variable fluorescence and a certain capacity for reversible non-photochemical quenching. It has been suggested that reversible quenching may be caused by pH-dependent release of Ca2+ from Photosystem II (PS II) (Krieger and Weis (1992) Photosynthetica 27: 89–98). Under conditions in which reversible non-photochemical quenching occurs, a TL band at around 50 °C is observed, in the presence of DCMU, in IML leaves. A band in this temperature range has previously been observed in PS II depleted of Ca2+ (Ono and Inoue (1989) Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 973: 443–449). The 50 °C band disappears upon dark adaptation. In mature leaves, no significant band is seen at 50 °C. It is concluded that, in IML leaves, reversible quenching may be related to the release of Ca2+ from Photosystem II. However, it seems that in the mature system, under most conditions, such release does not contribute significantly to quenching
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    Measurements of mesophyll conductance, photosynthetic electron transport and alternative electron sinks of field grown wheat leaves (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 41 (1994), S. 397-403 
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    Keywords: electron transport rate ; mesophyll conductance to CO2 diffusion ; photosynthesis ; photorespiration
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    Notes: Abstract Photosynthetic electron transport drives the carbon reduction cycle, the carbon oxidation cycle, and any alternative electron sinks such as nitrogen reduction. A chlorophyll fluorescence— based method allows estimation of the total electron transport rate while a gas-exchange-based method can provide estimates of the electron transport needed for the carbon reduction cycle and, if the CO2 partial pressure inside the chloroplast is accurately known, for the carbon oxidation cycle. The gas-exchange method cannot provide estimates of alternative electron sinks. Photosynthetic electron transport in flag leaves of wheat was estimated by the fluorescence method and gasexchange method to determine the possible magnitude of alternative electron sinks. Under non-photorespiratory conditions the two measures of electron transport were the same, ruling out substantial alternative electron sinks. Under photorespiratory conditions the fluorescence-based electron transport rate could be accounted for by the carbon reduction and carbon oxidation cycle only if we assumed the CO2 partial pressure inside the chloroplasts to be lower than that in the intercellular spaces of the leaves. To further test for the presence of alternative electron sinks, carbon metabolism was inhibited by feeding glyceraldehyde. As carbon metabolism was inhibited, the electron transport was inhibited to the same degree. A small residual rate of electron transport was measured when carbon metabolism was completely inhibited which we take to be the maximum capacity of alternative electron sinks. Since the alternative sinks were small enough to ignore, the comparison of fluorescence and gas-exchange based methods for measuring the rate of electron transport could be used to estimate the mesophyll conductance to CO2 diffusion. The mesophyll conductance estimated this way fell as wheat flag leaves senesced. The age-related decline in photosynthesis may be attributed in part to the reduction of mesophyll conductance to CO2 diffusion and in part to the estimated decline of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase amount.
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    Changes in the photosynthetic light response curve during leaf development of field grown maize with implications for modelling canopy photosynthesis (1994)
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    Photosynthesis research 42 (1994), S. 217-225 
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    Keywords: photosynthesis ; leaf age ; maize
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    Notes: Abstract Changes in the photosynthetic light-response curve during leaf development were determined for the fourth leaf of maize crops sown on 23 April and 10 June. Temperatures were unusually mild during late spring/early summer and neither crop experienced chilling damage. The concept of thermal time was used to take into account the effects of different temperature regimes on developmental stage, thereby enabling photosynthetic light-response data to be combined for both crops to describe the general response. Large variations in the upper asymptote (Asat) and convexity (Θ) of the light-response curve occurred during leaf development, but the maximum quantum yield of CO2 assimilation remained relatively constant throughout. Dark respiration rates showed a small but significant decrease with leaf age and generally ranged between 5 and 10% of Asat. A simple mathematical model was developed to assess the sensitivity of daily leaf photosynthesis (AL) to reductions in the Asat, Θ and the initial slope (Φ) of the light-response curve at different stages of leaf development. On bright sunny days, and at all developmental stages, AL was ca. twice as sensitive to reductions in Asat than to reductions in Φ and Θ. In overcast conditions, however, all three parameters contributed significantly to reductions in leaf photosynthesis, although the contribution of Φ was greatest during early leaf growth, while older leaves were most sensitive to depressions in Asat. The implications of these results for modelling the sensitivity of canopy photosynthesis to chill-induced photoinhibition of the light-response curve are discussed.
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    Linearization of column responses by correlation chromatography. Separation improvement and reduction of undesired adsorption effects (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 62-70 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Correlation chromatography ; Simulation model ; Adsorption effects ; Separation improvement
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    Notes: Summary Experiments and simulations prove that correlation chromatography can greatly reduce the disadvantage of a non-linear response of the chromatographic column. A factor that has been accepted as being an important source of error in correlation or multiplex chromatography, has been shown not to be. Separations affected, improve dramatically when correlation chromatography is used, and a substantial amount of correlation noise only arises when there is a large difference in separation between a conventional chromatogram and a correlogram. A model has been developed for simulating these nonlinearities. It is shown that, especially for correlation chromatography, the simulation results match the practical measurements very well.
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    Gas chromatographic water analysis by direct injection of large sample volumes in an adsorbent-packed PTV injector (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 694-700 
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    Notes: Summary A GC method is described for the determination of pollutants in aqueous samples by direct enrichment out of large sample volumes in a PTV injector. The vaporized water is eliminated through the split vent and the analytes are concentrated on an adsorbent inside the insert of the PTV. For the selection of suitable adsorbents, breakthrough volumes of selected pesticides and nitroaromatics on Tenax TA, Tenax GR, Chemipack C18 and graphitized carbon blacks have been determined by experiment. The determination of the breakthrough volumes was carried out directly in the PTV insert. Tenax TA proved to be the best sorbent with regard to the breakthrough volumes and its inertness to the analytes to be determined. As the result of the investigations, 500 μl of aqueous standard solutions of pesticides and nitroaromatics (concn.=0.02 ... 2 μg/l) were analyzed with an average relative standard deviation of 10%. The procedure was successfully applied for the analysis of real samples.
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    Chromatographic determination of the rate and extent of absorption of air pollutants by sea water (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 191-198 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Reversed-flow technique ; Absorption rate ; Air pollutants
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    Notes: Summary A simple chromatographic method is developed to determine the rate constant for expulsion of an air pollutant from water or its diffusion parameter in the liquid, the rate constant for chemical reaction of the pollutant with water, its mass transfer coefficient in the liquid, and the partition coefficient between liquid water and air. From these physicochemical parameters, the absorption rate by sea water and, therefore, the depletion rate of a polluting substance from the air can be calculated, together with the equilibrium state of this absorption. The method has been applied to nitrogen dioxide being absorbed by triple-distilled water and by sea water, at various temperatures. From the temperature variation of the reaction rate constant and of the partition coefficient, the activation energy for the reaction and the differential heat of solution were determined.
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    Static headspace gas chromatography of residual solvents in pharmaceutical products (1994)
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    Chromatographia 39 (1994), S. 645-648 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Headspace analysis ; Gonadotrophins ; Residual solvents
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    Notes: Summary A headspace, gas chromatographic method for determining residual solvents in pharmaceutical products such as the gonadotrophin powders, has been developed. The method allows the determination of residual solvents by transferring the samples directly into a vial contianing 10 mL 2M sodium chloride; the analysis is carried out by sampling the headspace and separating by capillary gas chromatography using a programmedtemperature vaporizer (PTV) injector. The procedure described is simple, sensitive and reproducible. The lower limit of detection is 20 ppb for ethyl alcohol, 8 ppb for acetone and 0.5 ppb for diethyl ether.
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    Comparison of sample concentration methods and correlation chromatography for polymer dynamic head-space studies (1994)
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    Chromatographia 39 (1994), S. 210-215 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Correlation chromatography ; Concentration methods ; Polymer dynamic head-space sampling
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    Notes: Summary Gas chromatography has been used to study the kinetics of evolution of volatiles from polypropylene samples (at 70°C). Correlation chromatography (CC) and the trapping of volatiles on Tenax sorbents and activated charcoal were employed to improve the detector signal. As a reference, the kinetics of gas evolution was studied by making a series of direct single injections of polymer head-space gas on a GC column. The results of trapping differed from those obtained by single injection. However, the data from single injections and CC were in good agreement. The CC method was found to offer far more operator convenience for dynamic head-space analysis than sample trapping, being less subject to operator errors.
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    Comparison of packed and capillary columns for quantitative gas chromatography of triglycerides in milk fat (1994)
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    Chromatographia 39 (1994), S. 265-270 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Triglycerides ; Packed vs. capillary columns ; Milk fat
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    Notes: Summary Quantitative gas chromatography of triglycerides in conjunction with established triglyceride formulae can be used to determine various milk fat parameters. Since the evaluation of, for example, iodine number or content of non-milk fats (foreign fats) in milk fat requires only the separation of triglycerides by carbon number and since repeatabilities, especially of the highboiling triglycerides, have been less acceptable with capillary columns in the past, packed columns have been used exclusively. There is, however, an increasing demand for the use of capillary instead of packed columns and to that end the present investigation has been carried out. To achieve a suitable resolution, with this particularly exacting high-temperature application, a short 5 m capillary column of extreme temperature stability has been used. As well as modification of various analytical conditions different injection techniques have been investigated. On-column, PTV and split injection were compared with regard to repeatability. The cold-on-column injection technique was found to produce the best results, being comparable to the excellent precision of a packed column. Thus, a method is now available by means of which the determination of milk fat parameters by the triglyceride formulae, such as the amount of foreign fats in milk fat, can now be carried out with a standardized capillary column.
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    An improved method for determination of light hydrocarbons in stabilized crude oil (1994)
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    Chromatographia 39 (1994), S. 363-365 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Light hydrocarbons ; Stabilized crude oil ; Capillary guard column
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    Notes: Summary This paper reports a quick, and simple method for quantitative determination of C2 to C6 hydrocarbons in stabilized crude oil without using a back flush system. A mixture of crude oil and internal standard is injected into a GC equipped with a 6 meter length of fused silica capillary as a guard column. The light hydrocarbons are separated individually up to the last peak of the hexane group with the heavier components trapped in the guard column. The total analysis time for each sample is 15 minutes. The base line is table for up to 15 consecutive analyses. The guard column and the injector port are then reconditioned by simply heating them for one hour at 300 °C.
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    Graphite layer open tubular (GLOT) columns in gas chromatography and environmental analysis (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 98-108 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Liquid modified adsorption capillary columns ; Polar compound analysis ; Aqueous solution analysis
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    Notes: Summary The preparation of graphite layer open tubular (GLOT) columns is described together with their application to the analysis of priority pollutants and polar compounds such as alcohols, free carboxylic acids, aliphatic amines and phenols at the sub-nanogram level. A specific application of GLOT columns is for the direct analysis of aqueous solutions avoiding solvent extraction procedures. Several chromatograms of critical separations are reported together with calibration curves. A study of the reproducibility of column preparation is reported in terms of the standard deviation of the capacity ratio and of the minimum HETP obtained.
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    Explanatory coefficients for stationary phases in gas chromatography from McReynolds phase constants (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 679-688 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Stationary phases ; Phase constants ; Explanatory coefficients
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    Notes: Summary Explanatory phase coefficients according to Abraham et al. are calculated from McReynolds index differences and the phase constant B. The retention expression (log Vg)−A=BI/100 connects specific retention volumes and retention indices. McReynolds phase constants and Abrahams explanatory coefficients can be used with similar accuracy for the prediction of relative retention data and for the characterization of stationary phases in gas chromatography. The application of polarity constants for the characterization of stationary phases is discussed.
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    Application of liquid chromatography-particle beam mass spectrometry and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry for the identification of metabolites of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 781-788 
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    Keywords: Column liquid chromatography ; Gas chromatography ; Particle beam MS detection ; Polycyclic aromatic metabolites ; Biodegradation in water
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    Notes: Summary Two liquid chromatography-particle beam mass spectrometry (LC-PBMS) systems have been used for analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolites in water samples from a biological decomposition model experiment. The results were compared with those obtained by classical gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Evaluation of spectral data indicated the presence of six main metabolites; 1H,3H-naphtho [1,8-cd]pyran-1,3-dione, 1-(hydroxymethyl)naphthalene, and 1,2-acenaphthenedione were identified by use of standard substances and spiking experiments. Enrichment of the investigated water samples with online pre-column (C18) concentration, freeze-drying, and solvent extraction led to similar results with only slight differences. The application of microbore separation columns proved to be a promising tool in particle beam LC-MS measurements.
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    Improved resolution and determination of ambient C5−C12 hydrocarbons by GC-coupled refocussing system (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 151-157 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; C5−C12 hydrocarbons in air ; Cryogenic focussing ; Thermal desorption
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    Notes: Summary A homemade cryogenic system derived from readily available material is described, illustrating its usage as an accessory for adsorption/thermal desorption chromatography. A small Chromsorb-W-HP packing (1 cm) was introduced into a deactivated precolumn as a cryofocussing, preconcentrating unit. This was able to retain the analyte which had been thermally desorpted from a Tenax TA sampling tube at a relatively higher temperature (−80°C∼−90°C), with the analyte also reinjected on the analytical column in a relatively narrow band. Average overall recoveries for 24 hydrocarbons tested were 97.5%. Cryofocussing enhanced sensitivity and improved resolution. Field studies at a petroleum industry site were carried out and the accessory proved to be useful for complex C5−C12 hydrocarbon analysis in ambient air.
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    A theoretical model of the electron capture detector (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 304-312 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Electron capture detector ; Theoretical model of ECD
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    Notes: Summary This paper reports a theoretical model of the ECD detector. The model presented here can be used to examine the influence of pulse parameters on the current and signal characteristics of the detector. On the basis of this model it was found that a space charge is created in the detector when it is supplied with pulse voltage. Due to the electric potential generated by the space charge, in the time between the pulses the electrons and negative ions move towards the detector electrodes. The ionization current of the detector is the sum of the electron current flowing to the anode under the influence of the supplied pulse voltage and the current flowing under the space charge potential in the time between the pulses. It was also found that the detector signal is the sum of the differences between those two currents caused by introducing the sample molecules to the detector. The model was tested for a detector with different electrode configurations which worked at temperature of 300 K or 573 K and which was supplied with nitrogen or Ar+10% CH4 as the carrier gas.
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    Gas chromatographic separation of isomeric benzene derivatives using molecular sieves, combined with partition columns (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 613-616 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Adsorption and partition columns in series ; Molecular sieves ; Isomers of benzene homologs
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    Notes: Summary The possibility of using short gas chromatographic columns packed with different molecular sieves (silicalite and aluminophosphates), showing definite selectivity to para-isomeric compounds, in series with columns containing a liquid stationary phase was investigated. The molecular sieves were of different origin, while 1,2,3-tris (2-cyanoethoxy)propane (TCEP) and polyethylene glycol adipate (PEGA) were used as the liquid stationary phase. Ortho-, meta- and para-isomers of xylene, chlorotoluene and dichlorobenzene were chromatographed on these columns. It is shown that the best separation is obtained on a combined column with silicalite containing pure silica gel as the molecular sieve, and 10% PEGA as the liquid phase. Molecular sieves of aluminophosphate origin show only weak selectivity toward the para isomers.
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    Trace analysis of organics in aqueous samples by concentration in plastic tubing and multiplex gas chromatography (1994)
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    Chromatographia 39 (1994), S. 294-298 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Preconcentration ; Thermal modulator ; Cross-correlation ; Trace analysis
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    Notes: Summary The inside wall of an uncoated polyethylene capillary traps organic substances from a water sample pumped through it by a nitrogen gas stream. Heating the capillary in a chromatographic oven slowly releases the trapped organic substances from the wall. Nitrogen carrier gas transports sample substances released through a thermal desorption modulator and onto a chromatographic column. Pulsing the temperature of the modulator modulates the concentrations of sample components as they enter the column. Computing the cross correlation of the detector output signal against the applied modulation signal generates the chromatogram. Detection limits below 1 ppb are possible using a flame ionization detector. No sample pretreatment or cold trap is required.
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    Investigation of the composition ofPinus peuce needle oil by GC-MS and GC-GC-MS (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 689-693 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Enantioselectivity ; GC-MS ; GC-GC-MS ; Pinus peuce ; Monoterpenes
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    Notes: Summary Needles of the Macedonian Pine,Pinus peuce Griseb., a conifer growing in the Balkan mountains, were extracted by a Likens-Nickerson simultaneous distillation-solvent extraction device. The components of this essential oil were identified by the retention times obtained on two columns differing in polarity and by GC-MS. Because of the complex nature of such plant extracts, a multidimensional GC method for enantiomer analysis, using a non-chiral pre-column and a chiral main column has been developed. The enantiomeric ratios of five monoterpene hydrocarbons were estimated by GC-GC and GC-GC-MS.
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    Properties of L-phenylalanine tetraamides as chiral selectors for D,L-amino acids by capillary gas chromatography (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 173-176 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Chiral phases ; Phenylalanine tetraamides ; Amino acids
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    Notes: Summary A wide series of L-phenylalanine tetraamide selectors (Phe-n-O-TA) have been synthesized and used as stationary phases for chiral resolution of D,L-amino acids by capillary gas chromatography. The influence of length and polarity of the oxaalkanoyl bridge spacing the diamide chains of the selectors and the effects of steric hindrance on separating power were investigated. The characteristics of the chiral columns and the separation factors of D,L-n-butyl-N-trifluoroacetyl amino esters are reported.
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    Determination of sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate in ternary mixtures by curie-point pyrolysis gas chromatography coupled to multivariate analysis (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 436-440 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Curie-point pyrolysis ; Multivariate analysis ; Sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate
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    Notes: Summary Multivariate analysis was used to develop a viable method for determination of sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate (DBS) by Curie-point pyrolysis gas chromatography. The pyrograms obtained were normalized against a maximum peak area and peak height. Normalized values were used for Quantification IV, which is one of the multivariate analysis methods, to select useful values initially. Then cluster analysis was carried out using both the selected values and their deviations. This method corresponds to qualitative analysis and indicates which data-base is similar to the sample. On the basis of this data-base, calibration data-bases are chosen. Principal component analysis (PCA) was performed using the calibration data-base and a set of sample data simultaneously. The principal component scores and contribution coefficients obtained were used to construct a calibration curve from which the DBS content of the sample was calculated. The results are in fair agreement with theoretical values.
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    Gas chromatographic determination of residual hydrazine and morpholine in boiler feed water and steam condensates (1994)
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    Chromatographia 38 (1994), S. 456-460 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Morpholine ; Hydrazine ; Boiler feed water and steam condensates
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    Notes: Summary Hydrazine, an oxygen scavenger in boiler water, was derivatised to the corresponding acetone azine and determined at the ng ml−1 level by gas chromatography. Morpholine, a corrosion inhibitor used in steam boilers, was estimated either directly (if 〉2.0 μg ml−1) or by quantitative preconcentration (0.1 ng – 2.0 μg ml−1). To obtain symmetrical peaks for these amines, the column packing was coated with KOH. Use of a nitrogen-specific detector improved accuracy of estimation of hydrazine and morpholine, giving a RSD of 1.9–3.6%. Chromatographic analysis of these amines in boiler feed water and steam condensate samples collected from boilers servicing a petroleum refinery is described. Environmental safety regulations calls for monitoring of hydrazine and the methods developed can easily be adapted for this purpose.
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    MSD, ECD and NPD performances compared in the assay of six non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in plasma samples (1994)
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    Chromatographia 39 (1994), S. 162-169 
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    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; MSD, ECD and NPD ; Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) ; Plasma samples
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    Notes: Summary The aim of this work was to compare the performance of the MSD, ECD and NPD systems when used for drug assay in biological fluids. As a practical test, six non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs added to plasma samples were detected and quantified. The analyses were carried out after solvent extraction from an acidic medium and subsequent methylation. The linearity of response was tested for all the detection systems in the range of 1 to 25 ng/ml. Precision and accuracy were determined at 1, 5 and 10 ng/ml. The minimum quantifiable level for the six drugs was about 1 ng/ml with each of the three detection systems.
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    Grapevine leaf gas exchange, plant growth, yield, fruit quality and carbohydrate reserves influenced by the grape leafhopper,Empoasca vitis (1993)
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    Entomologia experimentalis et applicata 69 (1993), S. 289-296 
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    Keywords: Vitis vinifera ; Empoasca vitis ; leafhopper ; photosynthesis ; transpiration ; stomatal conductance ; mesophyll conductance ; growth ; yield ; fruit quality ; starch ; carbohydrate reserves
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    Notes: Abstract The impact of the grape leafhopper,Empoasca vitis, on leaf gas exchange, plant growth, yield, fruit quality and carbohydrate reserves of the grapevines,Vitis vinifera L., was studied. Gas exchange was measured on the discolored (red) and the green parts of infested main leaves and on leaves from uninfested vines. Photosynthesis and mesophyll conductance were severely reduced on main leaves showing leafhopper feeding symptoms. The stomatal conductance of the red leaf section of infested main leaves was lower than on undamaged control leaves. Additionally, the red leaf section of infested main leaves showed lower transpiration rates when compared to the green parts of the same leaves and to undamaged control leaves. Gas exchange processes of lateral leaves were not affected by leafhopper feeding. Leafhopperload on main leaves was correlated to visual damage symptoms. At 71.8 leafhopper-days per leaf up to 40% of the main leaf area of the infested plants was discolored from the borders towards the center. Lateral leaves showed no feeding symptoms. Shoot diameter, pruning weight and carbohydrate reserves in the wood were not affected by leafhoppers. Lateral leaf area growth was significantly stimulated on plants infested by leafhoppers. No decrease in yield and fruit quality with leafhopper-loads up to 71.8 leafhopper-days per leaf were observed.
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    Quantitative analysis of abscisic acid in needles of Abies alba Mill. by electron capture gas chromatography (1993)
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    Trees 7 (1993), S. 175-181 
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    ISSN: 1432-2285
    Keywords: Abies alba ; Abscisic acid ; Damage ; Gas chromatography ; Needles
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    Topics: Biology , Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary The amount of abscisic acid (ABA) in needles of silver fir from a natural location was investigated with regard to position in the crown, damage, seasonal variation, and needle age. Because of problems of quantification of ABA in coniferous needles, which contain numerous secondary plant products, a method for reliable determination of both isomers cis-trans-ABA (c-ABA) and transtrans-ABA (t-ABA) was developed. By means of gas chromatography (GC) using an electron capture detector (BCD) and a programmed temperature vaporizer (PTV) injector complete separation of both compounds was achieved. Two different pairs of fir were investigated — in each case a damaged and a healthy tree. Needles from both trees from the first and the second pair collected in September contained 500–1100 ng c-ABA/g fresh weight (FW), and the concentrations of t-ABA varied from 400 to 700 ng/g FW. Investigations from the second pair show highest amounts of 2900 ng/g Fw c-ABA and 1800 ng/g FW of t-ABA in May and June. For the first pair a higher c-ABA content was found in needles from the top of the crown than in those from the middle and the base. This difference could not be confirmed in the analysis of the second pair. Because of the strong natural deviation no statistically significant difference between the healthy and the damaged tree was found. The first pair of firs examined showed a higher t-ABA concentration than the second one. In this case the highest amount was found in the top of the crown. Methodical mistakes during the clean-up procedure and in quantification by gas chromatography could be excluded. The presence of c- and t-ABA in the purified extract was corroborated by mass spectrometry. With regard to the seasonal variation both isomers of ABA show an unequivocal trend. The maximum concentration is achieved in May to June, whereas the content is minimal in August/September. In any case the level of t-ABA is lower than that of c-ABA. No correlation between the amount of ABA and the needle age could be established.
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    Photosynthesis of bract and its contribution to seed maturity inCarpinus laxiflora (1993)
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    Ecological research 8 (1993), S. 81-83 
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    Keywords: bract ; Carpinus laxiflora ; mast year ; photosynthesis
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    Notes: Abstract Light saturated net photosynthesis was measured in bracts and leaves ofCarpinus laxiflora, the major species in secondary forests in cool and intermediate temperate zones in Japan. The maximum net photosynthesis of leaves and bracts was essentially constant from May to early August and decreased gradually thereafter. For bracts, it was 3.2 μmol m−2s−1, approximately half that for the leaves. The photosynthesis of bracts would thus appear to contribute significantly to seed maturity. The estimated production of bract based on the photosynthesis would make seeds (3 mg dry weight) mature for 37 days, assuming all photosynthate of the bracts to have been distributed in the seeds only. This was quite consistent with the growth curve for the seeds. A mast year phenomenon is discussed in relation to bract photosynthesis and leaf number.
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    Comparison of ecophysiological responses to heavy snow in two varieties ofAucuba japonica with different areas of distribution (1993)
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    Ecological research 8 (1993), S. 111-121 
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    Keywords: Aucuba japonica ; photosynthesis ; Sea of Japan ; shading ; snow cover
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    Notes: Abstract Aucuba japonica varieties are common evergreen understory shrubs in Japan.Aucuba japonica var.borealis is distributed on the Sea of Japan side of Honshu and Hokkaido where heavy snow cover lasts for more than 3 months in winter.Aucuba japonica var.japonica is distributed in areas with shallow or no snow on the Pacific Ocean side of Honshu and Shikoku. The ecophysiological characteristics of var.borealis were compared with those of var.japonica to examine the effects of heavy and long-term snow cover on the life cycle of var.borealis. Shoots of both varieties were shaded in crushed ice for 110 days, but their photosynthetic activities, chlorophyll contents and the chlorophylla/b ratio was not affected. The leaves of var.borealis were no less frost tolerant than those of var.japonica. In spite of the difference in environmental factors, both varieties had similar characteristics in seasonal changes of photosynthesis, respiration and chlorophylla/b ratio. These results suggest that var.japonica could survive in areas with heavy snow where it does not normally occur. Leaf net production (LNP) was estimated based on the microclimatic data and seasonal photosynthetic and respiration rates. The difference in the annual LNP between the two varieties was equivalent to the difference in the LNP during the snow season. One of the major effects of snow cover is to interrupt and reduce the production period of var.borealis.
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    Effects of juglone on growth, photosynthesis, and respiration (1993)
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    Journal of chemical ecology 19 (1993), S. 559-568 
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    ISSN: 1573-1561
    Keywords: Juglone ; allelopathy ; allelochemical ; photosynthesis ; chioroplast ; mitochondria ; Lemna minor ; Glycine max
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    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract The impacts of juglone on plant growth and several other physiological functions were evaluated in this study. Juglone inhibitedLemna minor growth, chlorophyll content, and net photosynthesis at treatments between 10 and 40μM. Soybean leaf disks vacuum infiltrated with as little as 10μM juglone had reduced photosynthesis. Oxygen evolution by chloroplasts isolated fromPisum sativum was inhibited by juglone with an I50 of 2μM. Micromolar treatments of juglone stimulated oxygen uptake in mitochondria isolated fromGlycine max. These data suggest perturbations of chloroplast and mitochondrial functions may contribute to plant growth reductions observed in juglone-mediated allelopathy.
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    Stable assembly of PsaE into cyanobacterial photosynthetic membranes is dependent on the presence of other accessory subunits of photosystem I (1993)
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    Plant molecular biology 23 (1993), S. 895-900 
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    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Keywords: cyanobacterial mutant ; membrane assembly ; PsaE ; photosystem I ; photosynthesis
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract We studied assembly of the PsaE subunit of photosystem I into photosynthetic membranes of cyanobacterial mutant strains that lack specific photosystem I subunits. Radiolabeled PsaE was incubated with photosynthetic membranes, and their binding and assembly were assayed by resistance to removal by chaotropic agents and proteolytic digestion. PsaE incorporated into the wild-type membranes was resistant to these treatments. In the absence of PsaD, it was resistant to proteolytic digestion, but was removed by NaBr. When the membranes were isolated from a mutant strain in which the psaF and psaJ genes have been inactivated, PsaE assembled in vitro could not be removed. PsaE could associate with the membranes of the strain DF in which the psaD, psaJ and psaF genes have been mutated. However, the radiolabeled PsaE associated with these membranes was removed both by the proteolytic as well as by the chaotropic agents. Characterization of PsaE present in vivo revealed similar results. These observations suggest that PsaD and PsaF/J may interact with PsaE and stabilize it in the photosystem I complex.
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    Capillary gas chromatography of some triglycerides in cheese using programmed-temperature injection (1993)
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    Chromatographia 35 (1993), S. 649-652 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Triglycerides in cheese ; Programme temperature (PTV) injection ; Silica capillary columns
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary A rapid gas chromatographic method for the analysis of triglycerides in cheese on a capillary column with a programmed temperature vaporizer has been developed. Fat were extracted with hexane to dryness. The reproducibility of the method was assessed and the coefficient of variation for the total triglycerides was 2.50%. Recovery of individual triglycerides ranged between 87 to 105%.
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    Determination of sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate using several internal standards by multivariate analysis of curiepoint, pyrolysis gas chromatography (1993)
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    Chromatographia 35 (1993), S. 643-648 
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    ISSN: 1612-1112
    Keywords: Gas chromatography ; Curie-point pyrolysis ; Multivariate analysis ; Sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate
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    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary Multivariate analysis can be applied to quantitative analysis of sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate (DBS) by pyrolysis gas chromatography. The pyrograms obtained from mixtures of DBS and polyoxyethylene lauryl ether (PEG) were normalized for the peak heights and areas of several internal standards which appeared in every pyrogram, against the characteristics peaks for DBS and PEG. This normalization method gave smaller experimental errors than when using one internal standard. The normalization values were used for cluster analysis unchanged. The values were calculated correlation coefficients and principal component analysis was performed using 11 data base and a set of sample data simultaneously. One calibration curve was calculated from the principal component scores. The DBS content of a sample was obtained from the calibration curve. Calculated values were in fair agreement with theoretical values.
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