Primary Processes in Photobiology

I New Experimental Techniques.- Vibrational and Electronic Dephasing Time Measurement with the Use of Temporally Incoherent Light.- II Photosynthesis and Phototransformation.- Energy Gap Law in Electron Transfer Reaction.- Analysis of the Excitation Energy Transfer in Spinach Chloroplasts at Room Temperature..- Photonic Energy Transport in Phycobilin-Chlorophyll System: A Comparative Study with Artificial Multilayer Films..- Calculations of Spectroscopic Properties and Electron Transfer Kinetics of Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Centers.- Femtosecond Absorption Studies of the Primary Events in Bacterial Photosynthesis and Light- and Dark-Adapted Bacteriorhodopsin.- The Primary Photochemical Reactions in Systems I and II of Photosynthesis.- Phototransformation Pathway of Phytochrome.- Photochemical Holeburning and Stark Spectroscopy of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers.- III Rhodopsin, Sensory Rhodopsin, Phoborhodopsin, and Retinochrome.- Photochemical Primary Process of Octopus Rhodopsin..- Phototaxis and the Second Sensory Pigment in Halobacterium halobium..- Photocycles of Sensory Rhodopsin.- Flash Photolysis Study on Sensory Rhodopsin and Phoborhodopsin.- Photochemistry of Retinochrome Studied by Nanosecond and Picosecond Spectroscopy..- IV Bacteriorhodopsin.- Determination of Chromophore Structure and Photochemistry in Bacteriorhodopsin with Resonance Raman, NMR, and Chemical Analogues.- On the Nature of the Primary Photochemical Events in Rhodopsin and Bacteriorhodopsin.- Two Kinds of Bacteriorhodopsin Analogues Synthesized from Naphthylretinal.- A New Intermediate in the Photocycle of Bacteriorhodopsin.- Structure Change of Bacteriorhodopsin and the Mechanism of Proton Pump.- Activity of Bacteriorhodopsin in the Presence of a Large pH Gradient.- Picosecond and Nanosecond Spectroscopies of the Photochemical Cycles of Acidified Bacteriorhodopsin.- Structure of Bacteriorhodopsin and Halorhodopsin in Relation to the Pumping function.- Picosecond Intermediates in the Bacteriorhodopsin Photocycle.- The Role of Metal Ions in Bacteriorhodopsin function.- Transient Resonance Raman Spectra of Bacteriorhodopsin and Halorhodopsin.- Index of Contributors.