The molecular basis of high light photoacclimation in diatoms

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Peter Kroth, since 1/2008
• Subject Area: Plant Physiology
• Term: from 2006 to 2010
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 34241223

• Final Report Year: 2010

Final Report Abstract

No abstract available

Publications

• Talk, Photosynthesis Workshop 2006, Frankfurt: ‘Investigations on photosystem II mutants in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum’
  Sabine Sturm
  
• Talk, Phykologentagung 2006, Helgoland: ‘Investigations on photosystem II mutants in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum’
  Sabine Sturm
  
• 2007 Fast regulation of photosynthesis in diatoms : Evolution, regulation and ecophysiology. Functional Plant Science and Biotechnology 1:267-287
  Lavaud J.
  
• 2007 Photoprotection capacity differs among diatoms: Possible consequences on the spatial distribution of diatoms related to fluctuations in the underwater light climate. Limnology & Oceanography 52:1188- 1194
  Lavaud J., Strzepek R.F. and Kroth P.G.
  
• Poster, Botanikertagung 2007, Hamburg: ‘Light stress proteins in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum’
  Sabine Sturm
  
• Talk (invited), AquaFluo International Meeting 2007, Nove Hrady-Czech Rep.: ‘The application of chlorophyll fluorescence in the eco-/physiology of diatoms’
  Johann Lavaud
  
• Talk, Botanikertagung 2007, Hamburg: ‘Photoprotection capacity differs among diatoms: Possible consequences on their spatial distribution’
  Johann Lavaud
  
• Talk, German-Japanese Redox Regulation Workshop 2007, Konstanz: ‘Gene expression as a function of light intensity in diatom psbA mutants’
  Johann Lavaud
  
• Talk, ISE-G Meeting 2008, München: ‘Light stress proteins in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum’
  Sabine Sturm
  
• 2009 First induced plastid genome mutations in an alga with secondary plastids: psbA mutations in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum (Bacillariophyceae) reveal consequences on the regulation of photosynthesis, Journal of Phycology 45: 838-846
  Materna A.C., Sturm S., Kroth P.G. and Lavaud J.
  
• Talk (invited), Botanikertagung 2009, Leipzig: ‘Diatoms as Model Organisms in Phycology’
  Peter Kroth
  
• Talk, ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2009, Nice-France: ‘Molecular tools to elucidate the biology of diatoms’
  Peter Kroth
  
• Talk, ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2009, Nice-France: ‘Photoprotection capacity differs among diatoms: Possible consequences on their spatial distribution related to fluctuations in the underwater light climate’
  Johann Lavaud
  
• Talk, Botanikertagung 2009, Leipzig : ‘High light photoacclimation of psbA mutants with an impaired linear electron transport in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum’
  Sabine Sturm
  
• Talk, Botanikertagung 2009, Leipzig: ‘Li818 protein homologues and the acclimation to high light in diatoms: possible involvement in the photoprotective nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ)’
  Johann Lavaud
  
• 2010 Fluorescence as an assay to understand aspects of the physiology of light regulation. In AquaFluo: Use of Chlorophyll Fluorescence in Aquatic Sciences, Prasil O. and Sugget D. (Eds)
  Ralph P., Wilhelm C., Lavaud J., Jakob T, Petrou K. and Kranz S.
  
• Light, hydrodynamics and photosynthesis: can the xanthophyll cycle help reveal the essence of the algal functional response ?, Journal of Plankton Research
  Brunet, C. and Lavaud, J.
  
• Talk (invited), Annual Meeting of the British Phycological Society 2010, Oban- Scotland: ‘Diatom photophysiology: regulation and ecophysiology’
  Johann Lavaud
  
• ‘Molecular mechanisms of light stress protection in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum’, Universität Konstanz, Fachbereich Biologie, 2010
  Sabine Sturm