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Photon statistics and pulsed-light regime in experiments on unicellular algae
Yair Zarmi1,2,3
1Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Israel.
Abstract:
Photon arrival time statistics significantly affect the performance of the photosynthetic system under a pulsed-light regime when the average number of photons hitting the Chlorophyll antenna of PS II is small. As a result, the interpretation of measurements of the production rate of biomass or other products of unicellular algae under a pulsed-light regime and the comparison of the results with those obtained under continuous illumination depends crucially upon accounting for these statistics.
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