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photosystem

British

/ ˈfəʊtəʊˌsɪstəm /

noun

botany either of two pigment-containing systems, photosystem I or II, in which the light-dependent chemical reactions of photosynthesis occur in the chloroplasts of plants

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An early stage that involved cyanobacteria innovating a new pigment, chlorophyll f, enabling the photosystem to harvest far-red light for the first time.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023

In addition, they developed a modified photosystem that could use this pigment to power the oxygen release reaction using only the lower energy red light.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023

Describe the electron transfer pathway from photosystem II to photosystem I in the light-dependent reactions.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

A photon strikes photosystem II to initiate photosynthesis.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013

A synthetic genome in yeast allows complex and rapid sequence manipulation to create synthetic chloroplast genomes; in fact, several photosystem proteins from Scenedesmus obliquus were found to function in .

From Nature ● Aug. 15, 2012

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