Study shows orange carotenoid protein shifts more than just color for cyanobacterial photoprotection

Friday, June 26, 2015 - 16:30 in Physics & Chemistry

Overexposure to sunlight, which is damaging to natural photosynthetic systems of green plants and cyanobacteria, is also expected to be damaging to artificial photosynthetic systems. Nature has solved the problem through a photoprotection mechanism called "nonphotochemical-quenching," in which excess solar energy is safely dissipated as heat from one molecular system to another. With an eye on learning from nature's success, a team of Berkeley Lab researchers has discovered a surprising key event in this energy-quenching process.

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