Ananya Mukherjee University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588 ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1802-1806 amukherjee3@unl.edu Photosynthetic organisms often face fluctuations in light quality and quantity. Green plants and algae have built-in mechanisms that allow them to adapt to such changes. One strategy involves modulating the activities of the two photosystems, PSI and PSII, through a reallocation of some […]
Ananya Mukherjee amukherjee3@unl.edu Affiliation University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588 ORCiD : 0000-0003-1802-1806 Fatty acid synthesis is a ubiquitous pathway in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Plants synthesize fatty acids for a variety of uses including membrane bilayers and seed energy reserves, but also for the production of lipoic acid, which is a cofactor for some […]
Plants and green algae can rapidly adapt to changing light conditions. Depending on light availability or other metabolic needs, Light Harvesting Complexes (LHC) II can be reallocated to photosystem I (PSI) from photosystem II (PSII) and vice versa. This is known as state transition and is mediated by kinases and antagonistic phosphatases via LHCII trimer […]