title: Special issue of photosynthetic research.
abstract: This Special Issue of Photosynthesis Research honors Louis M. N. Duysens, Roderick K. Clayton, and George Feher, three pioneering researchers whose work on bacterial photosynthesis laid much of the groundwork for our understanding of the role of the reaction center in photosynthetic light energy conversion. Their key discoveries are briefly summarized and an overview of the special issue is presented.
authors.affiliation: University of California, La Jolla, CA, USA, mokamura@physics.ucsd.edu.
authors.forename: Melvin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Okamura
authors.forename: Colin A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Wraight
authors.forename: Rienk
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: van Grondelle
mesh_terms: D010788:Photosynthesis