Chapter 1: Overview of primary processes of photosynthesis;
Chapter 2: Absorption of light, excitation energy transfer and electron transfer reactions;
Chapter 3: Chlorophylls;
Chapter 4: Photophysical properties and light-harvesting and photoprotective functions of carotenoids in bacterial photosynthesis: structural selections;
Chapter 5: The light-harvesting system of purple anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria;
Chapter 6: Oxygen evolving cyanobacteria;
Chapter 7: Antenna system of higher plants’ Photosystem I and its interactions with the core complex;
Chapter 8: Structure and function of Photosystem II light-harvesting proteins (lhcb) of higher plants;
Chapter 9: Regulatory control of antenna function in plants;
Chapter 10: Photoinhibition of photosynthetic electron transport;
Chapter 11: Structure of reaction centers in anoxygenic bacteria;
Chapter 12: Functional pattern of reaction centers in anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria;
Chapter 13: Structure and function of Photosystem I;
Chapter 14: Functional pattern of Photosystem I in oxygen evolving organisms;
Chapter 15: From cell growth to the 3.0 + resolution crystal structure of cyanobacterial Photosystem II;
Chapter 16: Functional pattern of Photosystem II in oxygen evolving organisms;
Chapter 17: Photosynthetic water splitting;
Chapter 18: Anoxygenic bacteria;
Chapter 19: Electron transport chains in oxygenic cyanobacteria;
Chapter 20: Structure-function of the cytochrome b6f complex: a design that has worked for three billion years;
Chapter 21: Photophosphorylation;
Chapter 22: The evolution of photosynthesis