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A quantum protective mechanism in photosynthesis

Since the emergence of oxygenic photosynthesis, living systems have developed protective mechanisms against reactive oxygen species. During charge separation in photosynthetic reaction centres, triplet states can react with molecular oxygen generating destructive singlet oxygen. The triplet product...

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Autores principales: Marais, Adriana, Sinayskiy, Ilya, Petruccione, Francesco, van Grondelle, Rienk
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4346811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25732807
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep08720

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