Photochemical and Non-Photochemical Quenching Coefficients of the Chlorophyll Fluorescence: Comparison of Variation and Limits |
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Authors: | Buschmann C |
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Institution: | (1) Botanical Institute, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany |
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Abstract: | There are several types of quenching coefficients currently in use which describe the decrease of the chlorophyll fluorescence:
the photochemical quenching coefficients qP and q(P)rel and the non-photochemical quenching coefficients qN, q(N)rel, and NPQ. These five coefficients were calculated for a broad variety of cases of the fluorescence signals in a normal, realistic
range and for determining the limits in a range with extremely low and high fluorescence values. The calculations showed that
the quenching coefficients currently in use are not only numbers between 0 and 1 as one would expect when taking them as a
relative measure of the quenching process. Most quenching coefficients must be regarded and interpreted carefully separated
from each other. Each photochemical quenching coefficient and each non-photochemical quenching coefficient describe the same
fluorescence signal in a different way. Only the relative quenching coefficients q(P)rel and q(N)rel match together and can be used to demonstrate a shift of the energy de-excitation from the photochemical to the non-photochemical
route.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | pulse-amplitude-modulation |
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