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SUBMITTER: Xu P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7609050 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xu Pengqi P Chukhutsina Volha U VU Nawrocki Wojciech J WJ Schansker Gert G Bielczynski Ludwik W LW Lu Yinghong Y Karcher Daniel D Bock Ralph R Croce Roberta R
eLife 20200925
Carotenoids are essential in oxygenic photosynthesis: they stabilize the pigment-protein complexes, are active in harvesting sunlight and in photoprotection. In plants, they are present as carotenes and their oxygenated derivatives, xanthophylls. While mutant plants lacking xanthophylls are capable of photoautotrophic growth, no plants without carotenes in their photosystems have been reported so far, which has led to the common opinion that carotenes are essential for photosynthesis. Here, we r ...[more]