The evolution of photosynthesis and chloroplasts
Björn, Lars Olof LU
and Govindjee, Govindjee
(2009)
In Current Science
96(11).
p.1466-1474
- Abstract
- This review focuses on what has been learned about the
evolution of photosynthesis in the past five years, and
omits evolution of CO2 assimilation. Oxygenic photosynthesis
(using both photosystems I and II) has evolved
from anoxygenic photosynthesis. The latter occurs in
different variants, using either a type 1 photosystem
resembling photosystem I, or a type 2 photosystem resembling
photosystem II. Opinions differ as to how
two types of photosystem came to be combined in the
same organism, whether by gene transfer between bacteria,
by fusion of bacteria, or as a result of gene duplication
and evolution within one kind of bacterium.
... (More) - This review focuses on what has been learned about the
evolution of photosynthesis in the past five years, and
omits evolution of CO2 assimilation. Oxygenic photosynthesis
(using both photosystems I and II) has evolved
from anoxygenic photosynthesis. The latter occurs in
different variants, using either a type 1 photosystem
resembling photosystem I, or a type 2 photosystem resembling
photosystem II. Opinions differ as to how
two types of photosystem came to be combined in the
same organism, whether by gene transfer between bacteria,
by fusion of bacteria, or as a result of gene duplication
and evolution within one kind of bacterium.
There are also different opinions about when oxygenic
photosynthesis arose, in conjunction with the Great
Oxygenation Event, 2.3 billion years before the present,
or more than a billion years before that.
Cyanobacteria were the first organisms to carry out
oxygenic photosynthesis. Some of them gave rise to
chloroplasts, while others continued to evolve as independent
organisms, and the review outlines both lines
of evolution. At the end we consider the evolution of
photosynthesis in relation to the evolution of our planet. (Less)
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- author
- Björn, Lars Olof
LU
and Govindjee, Govindjee
- organization
- publishing date
- 2009
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- chloroplast, cyanobacteria, horizontal gene transfer, red algae., bacteriochlorophyll, bacteria
- in
- Current Science
- volume
- 96
- issue
- 11
- pages
- 1466 - 1474
- publisher
- Indian Academy of Sciences
- external identifiers
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- wos:000267407300020
- scopus:67650308206
- ISSN
- 0011-3891
- project
- Photobiology
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Coauthor Govindjee has no given name (applies also to another submitted article). I have added family name Govindjee as given name because the system did not accept a blank. Govindjee had trouble with the American computer system, too, when he immigrated to USA, but went to court and was allowed to have one name only.
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evolution of photosynthesis in the past five years, and<br/><br>
omits evolution of CO2 assimilation. Oxygenic photosynthesis<br/><br>
(using both photosystems I and II) has evolved<br/><br>
from anoxygenic photosynthesis. The latter occurs in<br/><br>
different variants, using either a type 1 photosystem<br/><br>
resembling photosystem I, or a type 2 photosystem resembling<br/><br>
photosystem II. Opinions differ as to how<br/><br>
two types of photosystem came to be combined in the<br/><br>
same organism, whether by gene transfer between bacteria,<br/><br>
by fusion of bacteria, or as a result of gene duplication<br/><br>
and evolution within one kind of bacterium.<br/><br>
There are also different opinions about when oxygenic<br/><br>
photosynthesis arose, in conjunction with the Great<br/><br>
Oxygenation Event, 2.3 billion years before the present,<br/><br>
or more than a billion years before that.<br/><br>
Cyanobacteria were the first organisms to carry out<br/><br>
oxygenic photosynthesis. Some of them gave rise to<br/><br>
chloroplasts, while others continued to evolve as independent<br/><br>
organisms, and the review outlines both lines<br/><br>
of evolution. At the end we consider the evolution of<br/><br>
photosynthesis in relation to the evolution of our planet.}},
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