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Non-photochemical quenching. A response to excess light energy.

Patricia Müller, Xiao-Ping Li, K. Niyogi

2001.4.1PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

DOI: 10.1104/pp.125.4.1558

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Plants and algae have a love/hate relationship with light; however, too much light can lead to increased production of damaging reactive oxygen species as byproducts of photosynthesis.

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MÜLLER, Patricia; LI, Xiao-Ping; NIYOGI, K. Non-photochemical quenching. a response to excess light energy. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, 2001, 125 4: 1558–66.