Interaction of exogenous benzoquinone with Photosystem II in chloroplasts. The semiquinone form acts as a dichlorophenyldimethylurea-insensitive secondary acceptor
Authors:
Jérôme Lavergne
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Photosynthèse, C.N.R.S., 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette France
Abstract:
Chloroplasts were submitted to a sequence of saturating short flashes and then rapidly mixed with dichlorophenyldimethylurea (DCMU). The amount of singly reduced secondary acceptor (B?) present was estimated from the DCMU-induced increase in fluorescence in the dark caused by the reaction: QB?