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Role of Carotenoids in Photosynthesis

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Carotenoids: Structure and Function in the Human Body

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Carotenoids act as light harvesting accessory pigments in the photosynthetic process. These absorb light to drive photosynthesis as well as protect the photosynthetic machinery from damage due to high intensity of light. This light energy is transferred to the reaction center through either by fluorescence resonance energy transfer or electron exchange between carotenoids and chlorophyll molecules. Both of these energy transfer processes occur due to triplet excited state and singlet excited state of carotenoids respectively. Here, it has been demonstrated through spectroscopic studies that how carotenoids affect the reaction centre while transferring the energy. High intensity of light as well as low intensity of light also affects the process and rate of photosynthesis as well as the physical appearance of the plant. We have attempted to briefly describe the experiments and interpretations by other scientists that dealt with the question of how energy is transferred from the original location of photon absorption in the photosynthetic antenna system into the reaction centers and where it is converted into useful chemical energy.

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Zulfiqar, S., Sharif, S., Saeed, M., Tahir, A. (2021). Role of Carotenoids in Photosynthesis. In: Zia-Ul-Haq, M., Dewanjee, S., Riaz, M. (eds) Carotenoids: Structure and Function in the Human Body. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46459-2_5

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