title: Tripartite model for the photochemical apparatus of green plant photosynthesis.
abstract: Equations for fluorescence and the rates of photochemistry of photosystem I and photosystem II are derived from a photochemical model for the photosynthetic apparatus that includes the various interactions of the light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b complex with photosystem I and photosystem II as specific photochemical rate constants. The degree of coupling between photosystem II and the chlorophyll a/b complex which is expressed as a product of two probability terms plays a central role in this three-pigment system. The cycling of excitation energy back and forth between photosystem II and the chlorophyll a/b complex increases the exciton density in both arrays of chlorophyll according to a simple analytical expression in the equations. These equations of the tripartite model provide new and credible insights into the photochemical apparatus of photosynthesis.
mesh_terms: D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D010788:Photosynthesis; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism*
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