XIV CONTENTS 



Report of Some Recent Results at Wageningen 

 I. Transitory Rates 



B. KoK and C. J. P. Spruit 353 



II. Kinetics of I'hotosynthcsis 



B. KoK and J, A. Businger 35-4 



III. Photoinhibition 



B. KoK and J. A. Businger 357 



Mechanism of the Initial Steps in Photosynthesis 



J. A. Bassham and K. Shibata 366 



Chemical-Kinetic Studies of the Hill Reaction 



RuFUS LuMRY and John D. Spikes 373 



Kinetics of the Photosynthetic Incorporation of Radiocarbon 



S. Aronoff. 392 



Transient Phenomena in Leaves as Recorded by a Gas Thermal Con- 

 ductivity Meter 



Warren L. Butler 399 



Transient Changes in Cellular Gas Exchange 



Robert Emerson and Ruth V. Chalmers 406 



Induction Phenomena in Photosynthetic Algae at Low Partial Pres- 

 sures of Oxygen 



C. P. Whittingham 409 



Transients in O2 Evolution bj'^ Chlorella in Light and Darkness 

 I. Phenomena and Methods 



F. S. Brackett, R. a. Olson, and R. G. Crickard 412 



II. Influence of O2 Concentration and Respiration 



R. A. Olson, F. S. Brackett, and R. G. Crick.\rd 419 



Transients in the Carbon Dioxide Gas Exchange of Algae 



Hans Gaffron 430 



Chromatic Transients in Photosynthesis of Red Algae 



L. R. Blinks 444 



Transients in Acid Production by Purple Sulfur Bacteria 



Daniel D. Hendley 450 



PART VI: Formation and Condition of Chlorophyll in the Living 

 Cell 



Chloroplast Structure and Its Relation to Photosynthesis 



S. Granick 459 



The Natural State of Protochlorophyll 



James H. C. Smith, Donald W. Kupke, Josef E. Loeffler, Aii- 

 LEN Benitez, Ingrid Ahrne, and Arthur T. Giese 464 



The Enzymatic Synthesis of Uroporphyrin Precursors 



Lawrence Bogorad 475 



On Uniformity of Experimental Material 



Jack Myers 485 



Induced Periodicity of Photosynthesis and Respiration in Hydrodicfyon 



A. PiRSON. . /. 490 



Index 501 



