Matrix analysis of the oxygen evolving system of photosynthesis

✍ Scribed by J. Lavorel

• Book ID: 104155293
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 673 KB
• Volume: 57
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-5193
• DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5193(76)80011-2

✦ Synopsis

A linear four-step model is currently adopted to interpret the kinetic behaviour of the oxygen evolving system of higher plants' photosynthesis. Applying matrix analysis to this model allows one to derive three symmetrical functions of the transition probabilities of the model. It is shown that they constitute in general the only information concerning the model which can be extracted from experimental data. The analysis is applied to a series of published data. New properties of the oxygen evolving system are thus disclosed.