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Properties of the Photosynthetic Membrane

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Photoreception and Sensory Transduction in Aneural Organisms

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The chloroplast is the major biological energy converter on earth, and the amount of pigment involved in photosynthesis is many orders of magnitude larger than involved in all other photobiolo- gical processes taken together. Under optimal conditions the conversion of light energy occurs with an efficiency of 30–35 percent, nearly half the maximum efficiency thermodynamically obtainable (1–3). For reasons that need not concern us here, in practice the efficiency is usually considerably lower. Nevertheless, the amount of energy fixed by photosynthesis exceeds that expended by modern technology by at least an order of magnitude.

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Amesz, J. (1980). Properties of the Photosynthetic Membrane. In: Lenci, F., Colombetti, G. (eds) Photoreception and Sensory Transduction in Aneural Organisms. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 33. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9164-1_17

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