Phillips Photosynthesis

Several of the older and more common herbicides have been shown to interfere with one or more steps of photosynthesis. A number of these are powerful inhibitors at or near photosystem II (PS II) ( 1). Beginning in 1981, J. N. Phillips and J. L. Huppatz and their group at CSIRO (Australia) have shown that a series of cyanoacrylate (vinylogous carbamate) herbicides are potent inhibitors of PS II (2-6). 

Young, A.J., Phillip, D., Ruban, A.V., Horton, P., Frank, H.A. The xanthophyll cycle and carotenoid-mediated dissipation of excess excitation energy in photosynthesis. Pure Appl. Chem. 69, 2125-2130 (1997)... 

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