The Photochemistry of Carotenoids

Biosynthetic Pathways and the Distribution of Carotenoids in Photosynthetic Organisms.- Carotenoids in Photosynthesis: An Historical Perspective.- Carotenoid Synthesis and Function in Plants: Insights from Mutant Studies in Arabidopsis thaliana.- Carotenoids and Carotenogenesis in Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria.- Structure of Cartotenoid-Chlorophyll Protein Complexes.- The Structure and Function of the LH2 Complex from Rhodopseudomonas acidophila Strain 10050, with Special Reference to the Bound Carotenoid.- Carotenoids as Components of the Light-harvesting Proteins of Eukaryotic Algae.- The Structure of Reaction Centers from Purple Bacteria.- Carotenoids and the Assembly of Light-harvesting Complexes.- Electronic Structure, Stereochemistry, Spectroscopy, Dynamics and Radicals.- The Electronic States of Carotenoids.- Cis-Trans Carotenoids in Photosynthesis: Configurations, Excited-State Properties and Physiological Functions.- The Electronic Structure, Stereochemistry and Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Carotenoids.- Electron Magnetic Resonance of Carotenoids.- Carotenoid Radicals and the Interaction of Carotenoids with Active Oxygen Species.- Incorporation of Carotenoids into Reaction Center and Light-Harvesting Pigment-protein Complexes.- Ecophysiology and the Xanthophyll Cycle.- Ecophysiology of the Xanthophyll Cycle.- Regulation of the Structure and Function of the Light Harvesting Complexes of Photosystem II by the Xanthophyll Cycle.- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the Xanthophyll Cycle.- Relationships Between Antioxidant Metabolism and Carotenoids in the Regulation of Photosynthesis.- Model Systems.- Novel and Biomimetic Functions of Carotenoids in Artificial Photosynthesis.- Physical Properties of Carotenoids in the Solid State.- Carotenoids in Membranes.