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Environmental and Stress Physiology

Response of the Photosynthetic Apparatus in Dunaliella salina (Green Algae) to Irradiance Stress ¹

Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, Department of Pure and Applied Biology, The University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom

The response of the photosynthetic apparatus in the green alga Dunaliella salina, to irradiance stress was investigated. Cells were grown under physiological conditions at 500 millimoles per square meter per second (control) and under irradiance-stress conditions at 1700 millimoles per square meter per second incident intensity (high light, HL). In control cells, the light-harvesting antenna of photosystem I (PSI) contained 210 chlorophyll a/b molecules. It was reduced to 105 chlorophyll a/b in HL-grown cells. In control cells, the dominant form of photosystem II (PSII) was PSII(about 63% of the total PSII) containing >250 chlorophyll a/b molecules. The smaller antenna size PSII centers (about 37% of PSII) contained 135 ± 10 chlorophyll a/b molecules. In sharp contrast, the dominant form of PSII in HL-grown cells accounted for about 95% of all PSII centers and had an antenna size of only about 60 chlorophyll a molecules. This newly identified PSII unit is termed PSII. The HL-grown cells showed a substantially elevated PSII/PSI stoichiometry ratio in their thylakoid membranes (PSII/PSI = 3.0/1.0) compared to that of control cells (PSII/PSI = 1.4/1.0). The steady state irradiance stress created a chronic photoinhibition condition in which D. salina thylakoids accumulate an excess of photochemically inactive PSII units. These PSII units contain both the reaction center proteins and the core chlorophyll-protein antenna complex but cannot perform a photochemical charge separation. The results are discussed in terms of regulatory mechanism(s) in the plant cell whose function is to alleviate the adverse effect of irradiance stress.

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