Preface --; Section 1: Protochlorophyllide Photooxidoreductase Properties and Localisation --; A critical appraisal of the role and regulation of NADPH-protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase in greening plants --; Changes in the properties of protochlorophyllide reductase during early greening of etiolated squash cotyledons --; Proteolytic effects on the protochlorophyllide-oxidoreductase in oat --; Characterization of PChlide-protein complexes in PT and PLB enriched fractions of bean etioplasts. Effects of NADPH --; Protochlorophyll (ide) and chlorophyll (ide) in isolated original and reformed prolamellar bodies --; Section 2: Intermediates in Protochlorophyllide Photo-Reduction --; The long-wavelength-absorbing quenchers formed during illumination of protochlorophyllide-proteins --; Early processes of protochlorophyllide photoreduction as measured by nanosecond and picosecond spectrophotometry --; The primary reaction in the photoreduction of protochlorophyllide. A nanosecond fluorescence study --; Section 3: Protochlorophyllide and Chlorophyllide forms --; Protochlorophyllide and chlorophyllide-protein complexes during greening --; Fluorescence emission spectra of etiolated leaves measured at 296 and 77K during the first seconds of continuous illumination --; The regulatory effect of the cysteine/cystine redox couple on protochlorophyllide photoreduction in etioplasts --; The influence of the NADPH/NADP+ redox couple on the photoreduction of protochlorophyllide and on the spectral characteristics of the chlorophyllide-proteins in etioplasts --; The photoreduction of Zinc-protochlorophyllide by isolated etioplast lamellae --; A model for the reduction of protochlorophyll (ide) containing three different forms of photoactive protochlorophyll (ide) --; Section 4: The First Photoactivities Apart from Protochlorophyllide Photoreduction --; The Franck-Inoue chlorophyllide micro-cycle II in vivo and in vitro --; Extension of the experiment by J.H.C. Smith on the onset of the oxygen evolution in etiolated bean leaves --; Thermoluminescence in etiolated bean leaves --; Section 5: Membrane Development and Pigment Composition --; Biosynthesis of the pigment-protein complexes --; Low temperature fluorescence spectra of Phaseolus vulgaris plastids durinq development in periodic or continuous light in the presence of the internal fluorescence standard Phycocyanin --; The composition of stroma and grana thylakoid pigment-protein complexes --; Effect of light and protein crosslinkers on the ultrastructure of isolated etioplast membranes --; Section 6: Energy Migration --; The energy migration in pigment assembly in relation to the chlorophyll biosynthesis --; The bioenergetic description of light energy migration in photoactive membranes; equivalence between the theory of the energy fluxes and the theory of the proportion of pigment forms to total pigments --; The dynamics of the photoreduction of protochlorophyll (ide) into chlorophyll (ide) --; Section 7: Models --; Photochemical reduction of protochlorophyllide in detergent micelles with the final chlorophyllide formation --; Molecular structure of protochlorophyll forms --; Section 8: Special Topics --; Dark synthesis of chlorophyll in vivo and dark reduction of protochlorophyllide in vitro by pea chloroplasts --; Effect of leaf age on protochlorophyllide and chlorophyllide formation (a review) --; Author index.
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Proceedings of a Meeting held at the University of Liège, Belgium, 8-9 August 1983