James Barber FRS, has been a leading investigator in the field of photosynthesis for over 40 years. This volume summarizes his contributions, ending with his most important work on how plants make oxygen, a molecule that is essential to our life on our planet. His contributions over the years has taken a zigzag course dependent on many factors which university based scientists have to deal with including maintaining continuity of effort. Each step in the journey is moulded by the knowledge current at time, slowly progressing to his final goal, obtaining the high resolution of structure of the oxygen evolving enzyme and thus provide a blue-print to construct a technology to produce renewable carbon free energy for the future survival of organised human society on our planet. A selection of his papers are used to provide the stepping stones for his journey which stretch over almost 50 years. It is a story of what seemed impossible becoming possible and an inspiration to young scientists just starting their careers.
Contents:
Ion Transport in Unicellular Algae in Relation to Photosynthesis
Electrical Properties of Chloroplast Thylakoid Membranes Measured by Salt-Induced Stimulation of Delayed Chlorophyll Fluorescence from Photosystem II
Ion Regulation in Intact Chloroplasts in Response to Proton Pumping Across Thylakoid Membranes
Electrical Charges on the Outer Surface of Chloroplast Thylakoid Membrane and Changes in the Adjacent Diffuse Layer as Measured by Chlorophyll Florescence
Control of Thylakoid Membranes Organisation by Its Surface Charges
State 1State 2 Transitions Controlled by Changes in Electrical Surface Charge by Phosphorylation of the Exposed N-terminus of a LHCII Protein
Chlorophyll Fluorescence Lifetimes Measured with Picosecond Resolution
An Interesting Distraction Away from PSII to Remote Sensing
Lipids and Fluidity of Thylakoid Membranes
Quantifying the Lateral Diffusion of LHCII and Plastoquinone Diffusion in Thylakoid Membranes
Lipids and PSII
Chloroplast Genes and Consequences
The D1/D2/Cyt b559/PsbI PSII Reaction Centre Isolated
Deletion Mutants to Explore Function of Various PSII Subunits
Primary Reactions of PSII
Molecular Basis of Photoinhibition
Twenty One Years in a Botany/Biology Department: Reflections
Structure of PSII by Electron Microscopy Including Electron Crystallography
Structure of PSII by Electron Microscopy: Analysis of Single Particles
A Visit to UC Berkeley and A Surprise Redirection Towards Discoveries About PSI
Structure of PSII by X-Ray Crystallography and Implications
Further Studies on PSII by X-ray Crystallography and the Chloride-binding Sites
The Biosolar Laboratory Established in Italy
The Solar Fuels Lab Established in NTU, Singapore, and Artificial Photosynthesis
Concluding Remarks
Readership: Students and researchers in biochemistry, biological chemistry and plant biology.
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