Balancing protection and efficiency in the regulation of photosynthetic electron transport across plant evolution

What is it about?

Photosynthetic organisms use sunlight to fuel electron transport reactions that are tightly regulated to maintain the balance between light availability and metabolic demands. This work reviews how molecular mechanisms for the regulation of electron transport adapted during plant evolution, with special attention to Flavodiiron proteins (FLVs) that play a major role in photoprotection in cyanobacteria, green algae and mosses but were nevertheless lost during evolution of Angiosperms.

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