Photosynthesis fuels life on Earth using sunlight as energy source. However, light has a
simultaneous detrimental effect on the enzyme triggering photosynthesis and producing oxygen, …

Sunlight drives photosynthesis but can also cause photodamage. To protect themselves,
photosynthetic organisms dissipate the excess absorbed energy as heat, in a process known …

The photosynthetic apparatus must be able to withstand light conditions that exceed its capacity
for carbon fixation. Photosynthetic organisms developed nonphotochemical quenching (…

Light absorbed by chlorophylls of Photosystems II and I drives oxygenic photosynthesis.
Light-harvesting complexes increase the absorption cross-section of these photosystems. …

Colon tumours are hierarchically organized and contain multipotent self-renewing cells,
called Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs). We have previously shown that the Notch1 receptor is …

Plastids have retained from their cyanobacterial ancestor a fragment of the respiratory electron
chain comprising an NADPH dehydrogenase and a diiron oxidase, which sustain the so-…

In nature, plants experience large fluctuations in light intensity and they need to balance the
absorption and utilization of this energy appropriately. Non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) …

Photosynthesis converts sunlight into biologically useful compounds, thus fuelling practically
the entire biosphere. This process involves two photosystems acting in series powered by …

Apart from the canonical light-driven linear electron flow (LEF) from water to CO 2 , numerous
regulatory and alternative electron transfer pathways exist in chloroplasts. One of them is …

Drought is a major abiotic stress that impairs plant growth and development. Despite this, a
comprehensive understanding of drought effects on the photosynthetic apparatus is lacking. …