Marta Bueno, Maria F Fillat, Reto J Strasser, Ronald Maldonado-Rodriguez, Nerea Marina, Henry Smienk, Carlos Gómez-Moreno, Francisco Barja
INTENTION, GOAL, SCOPE, BACKGROUND: Cyanobacteria have the natural ability to degrade moderate amounts of organic pollutants. However, when pollutant concentration exceeds the level of tolerance, bleaching of the cells and death occur within 24 hours. Under stress conditions, cyanobacterial response includes the short-term adaptation of the photosynthetic apparatus to light quality, named state transitions. Moreover, prolonged stresses produce changes in the functional organization of phycobilisomes and in the core-complexes of both photosystems, which can result in large changes in the PS II fluorescence yield...
2004: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International