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As the process directly or indirectly supporting all life on earth except that in chemosynthetic ecosystems at ocean-floor spreading ridges (Edmond and van Damm, 1983), photosynthesis has been studied for a long time in great depth. I review here those details most important for functional biology. For more comprehensive and orderly presentations I refer the reader to general plant physiology texts, some comprehensive monographs (e.g., Zelitch, 1971), and monographs on physiological ecology (e.g., Larcher, 1980).
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Gutschick, V.P. (1987). Photosynthesis. In: A Functional Biology of Crop Plants. Functional Biology Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9801-5_3
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