Front Cover -- The Photosystems: Structure, Function and Molecular Biology -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of contributors -- Dedication -- Chapter 1. An introduction to plant and bacterial photosystems -- 1.1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.2. QUINONE TYPE REACTION CENTRES: A COMPARISON BETWEEN PURPLE BACTERIAL REACTION CENTRES AND PHOTOSYSTEM II -- 1.3. Fe-S TYPE REACTION CENTRES: A COMPARISON BETWEEN PLANT AND BACTERIAL SYSTEMS -- 1.4. FINAL COMMENT -- 1.5. REFERENCES -- Chapter 2. Thermodynamics of light energy conversion

2.1. INTRODUCTION2.2. DO THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS RESTRICT THE EFFICIENCY OF CONVERSION OF LIGHT ENERGY INTO WORK OR FREE ENERGY? -- 2.3. FORMULATION OF THE FIRST AND SECOND LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS FOR SYSTEMS CONTAINING RADIATION -- 2.4. THERMODYNAMIC ENERGY YIELD FOR LIGHT ENERGY CONVERSION, em -- 2.5. EFFECTIVE RADIATION TEMPERATURE -- 2.6. EXPRESSION OF THE MAXIMUM ENERGY YIELD em IN TERMS OF SPECTRAL RADIANCE -- 2.7. RADIATION TEMPERATURE -- 2.8. DEPENDENCE OF em ON THE PROPERTIES OF THE RADIATION AND CONVERTER

2.9. MAXIMUM ENERGY YIELD em FOR A TOTALLY ABSORBING CONVERTER IRRADIATED BY PLANCKIAN RADIATION FROM AN EXTERNAL SOURCE2.10. THE 'CARNOT FORMULA' FOR em -- 2.11. THRESHOLD (TWO-LEVEL) PHOTOCONVERTERS -- 2.12. ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF PHOTOSYNTHESIZING SYSTEMS -- 2.13. MAXIMUM ENERGY YIELD OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS AT VERY LOW LIGHT INTENSITIES -- 2.14. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 2.15. REFERENCES -- Chapter 3. Energy transfer and trapping in photosystem II -- 3.1. INTRODUCTION -- 3.2. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF LIGHT ABSORPTION AND TRANSFORMATION INTO ELECTROCHEMICAL FREE ENERGY IN PSII

3.3. ANTENNA SYSTEMS IN O2-EVOLVING PHOTOSYNTHETIC ORGANISMS3.4. TRAPPING OF EXCITATION ENERGY IN PSII REACTION CENTERS -- 3.5. BIOMIMETIC SYSTEMS -- 3.6. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 3.7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 3.8. REFERENCES -- Chapter 4. The molecular biology of photosystem II -- 4.1. INTRODUCTION -- 4.2. IDENTIFICATION, ORGANIZATION AND EXPRESSION OF CHLOROPLAST PSII GENES -- 4.3. IDENTIFICATION, ORGANIZATION AND EXPRESSION OF NUCLEAR PSII GENES -- 4.4. THE LIGHT-HARVESTING SYSTEM OF PHOTOSYSTEM II -- 4.5. GENETICS OF PSII -- 4.6. SUMMARY -- 4.7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

4.8. REFERENCESChapter 5. Oxygen evolution -- 5.1. INTRODUCTION -- 5.2. A KINETIC MODEL -- 5.3. A STRUCTURAL MODEL -- 5.4. THE MANGANESE CLUSTER -- 5.5. THE OXIDATION OF WATER -- 5.6. ROLE OF Ca2+ AND Cl -- 5.7. PERSPECTIVES -- 5.8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 5.9. REFERENCES -- Chapter 6. Protein engineering of photosystem II -- 6.1. INTRODUCTION -- 6.2. COMPARISON BETWEEN PHOTOSYSTEM II AND THE REACTION CENTER FROM PURPLE BACTERIA -- 6.3. OTHER PHOTOSYSTEM II COMPONENTS -- 6.4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 6.5. REFERENCES