Photosynthesis Chlorella

El-Sheekh, M.M., H.M. Kotkat, and O.H.E. Hammouda. 1994. Effect of atrazine herbicide on growth, photosynthesis, protein synthesis, and fatty acid composition in the unicellular green alga Chlorella kessleri. Ecotoxicol. Environ. Safety 29 349-358. 

Bromacil and isocil have been found to be potent and specific inhibitors of photosynthesis at the chloroplast level [361]. The uptake of carbon dioxide is blocked in Chlorella pyrenoidosa and growth inhibition parallels the inhibition of carbon dioxide uptake. In Euglena gracilis and in spinach chloroplasts, the blockage of oxygen production was noted [361]. 

Herron HA, Mauzerall D (1972) The development of photosynthesis in a greening mutant of Chlorella and an analysis of the light saturation curve. Plant physiology 50 141-148... 

Identification of Key Intermediates in C02 Assimilation Calvin and his colleagues used the unicellular green alga Chlorella to study the carbon-assimilation reactions of photosynthesis. They incubated 14C02 with illuminated suspensions of algae and followed the time course of appearance... 

Chlorella, a common symbiont in Hydra, sponges, and protozoa. Chlorella also lives free and has often been used in studies of photosynthesis. 

H. Tamiya, T. Iwamura, K. Shibata, E. Hase and T. Nihei (1953). Correlation between photosynthesis and light independent metabolism in the growth of Chlorella. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 12, 23 10. 

J. F. G. Wintermans (1955). Polyphosphate formation in Chlorella in relation to photosynthesis. Meded. Landbouwhogesch. Wageningen, 55, 69-126. 

Total eclipse. An illuminated suspension of Chlorella is actively carrying out photosynthesis. Suppose that the light is suddenly switched off How would the levels of 3-phosphoglycerate and ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate change in the next minute ... 

Kok B. (1953). Experiments on photosynthesis by Chlorella in flashing light. In JS Burlew (ed), Algal Culture From Laboratory to Pilot Plant. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington DC 63-75. 

One important consequence of van Niel s formulation is that in green-plant photosynthesis, the O2 evolved should originate from H2O, not CO2. This was soon confirmed experimentally by Ruben, Randall, Kamen and Hyde by mass-spectrometric examination of oxygen evolved by the alga Chlorella suspended in 0-labeled water. In retrospect, van NieTs simple and elegant postulate had provided one of the most important cornerstones for our understanding of the mechanism of photosynthesis during the past half century. For an in-depth discussion of the evolution of van NieTs concept, see the review by Clayton ". 

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