Role of bicarbonate in photosystem II, the water-plastoquinone oxido-reductase of plant photosynthesis
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The Graduate School of Experimental Plant Sciences, Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Agricultural Uni6ersity, Arboretumlaan 4, 6703 BD Wageningen, The Netherlands Institute of Plant Physiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China Departments of Plant Biology and Biochemistry, and Center of Biophysics and Computational Biology, Uni6ersity of Illinois, 265 Morrill Hall, 505 S. Goodwin A6e, Urbana, IL 61801-3707, USA *Corresponding author, e-mail: [email protected]
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