Neutron scattering in photosynthesis research: recent advances and perspectives for testing crop plants

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17310%2F21%3AA22025AV" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17310/21:A22025AV - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11120-020-00763-6" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11120-020-00763-6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11120-020-00763-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11120-020-00763-6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Neutron scattering in photosynthesis research: recent advances and perspectives for testing crop plants

Original language description

The photosynthetic performance of crop plants under a variety of environmental factors and stress conditions, at the fundamental level, depends largely on the organization and structural flexibility of thylakoid membranes. These highly organized membranes accommodate virtually all protein complexes and additional compounds carrying out the light reactions of photosynthesis. Most regulatory mechanisms fine-tuning the photosynthetic functions affect the organization of thylakoid membranes at different levels of the structural complexity. In order to monitor these reorganizations, non-invasive techniques are of special value. On the mesoscopic scale, small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) has been shown to deliver statistically and spatially averaged information on the periodic organization of the thylakoid membranes in vivo and/or, in isolated thylakoids, under physiologically relevant conditions, without fixation or staining. More importantly, SANS investigations have revealed rapid reversible reorganizations on the timescale of several seconds and minutes. In this paper, we give a short introduction into the basics of SANS technique, advantages and limitations, and briefly overview recent advances and potential applications of this technique in the physiology and biotechnology of crop plants. We also discuss future perspectives of neutron crystallography and different neutron scattering techniques, which are anticipated to become more accessible and of more use in photosynthesis research at new facilities with higher fluxes and innovative instrumentation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10610 - Biophysics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-13637S" target="_blank" >GA19-13637S: Roles of non-bilayer lipids and non-lamellar lipid phases in the structure, dynamics and function of plant thylakoid membranes</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PHOTOSYNTH RES

ISSN

0166-8595

e-ISSN

1573-5079

Volume of the periodical

150

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-3

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

41-49

UT code for WoS article

000537392900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85086001479