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Photoinhibition of photosynthesis and its recovery in the cyanobacteriumSpirulina platensis was studied to find how photosynthetic rates were influenced by light and temperature. By exposing cell samples from a turbidostat culture to combinations of light and temperature, a connection between light, temperature and photoinhibition was found. The experiments showed that a 10 degree increase from 20 °C to 30 °C considerably reduced the photoinhibition. At 25 °C a photon flux density of 1720 µmol m−2 s−1 reduced the photosynthetic rate by 50 % in 1 h, but a similarly high photon flux density had nearly no negative effect at 35 °C. Reactivation in low light from 50% photoinhibition was fast and complete in 60 min at 30 °C, while at 20 °C only about 1/6 of the full capacity was regained in the same time. Addition of the protein synthesis inhibitor streptomycin to cultures undergoing photoinhibition and regeneration indicated the presence also in this organism of a repair mechanism based on protein synthesis.
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Jensen, S., Knutsen, G. Influence of light and temperature on photoinhibition of photosynthesis inSpirulina platensis . J Appl Phycol 5, 495–504 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02182508
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