Open AccessDetecting Mutants That Have Impaired Photosynthesis by Their Increased Level of Fluorescence
Author(s) -
Pierre Bennoun,
R. P. Levine
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
plant physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.554
H-Index - 312
eISSN - 1532-2548
pISSN - 0032-0889
DOI - 10.1104/pp.42.9.1284
Subject(s) - photosynthesis , chlamydomonas , electron transport chain , mutant , fluorescence , biophysics , botany , chlorophyll fluorescence , chemistry , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , biochemistry , physics , gene , optics
A technique is described for detecting mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardi that have impaired photosynthesis. It is based on the fact that when photosynthetic electron transport is blocked there may be an increase in the level of fluorescence similar to that obtained in the presence of an inhibitor of photosynthetic electron transport such as dichlorophenyldimethylurea.