GENERAL INDEX 



163 



Phase test, 22 

 o-phenanthroline, 56, 82, 118, 



143 

 Phosphate transfer, 95, 102- 



103, 125, 136-8 

 Phosphogluconic acid oxidation 



of, 96 

 Phosphoryl-enol-pyruvate, 95 

 Photochemical sensitization by 



chlorophyll, 25-6 

 Photo-oxidation, 56 

 Photoreduction, 81 

 Photosynthetic bacteria, 74-8 



— products, 4, 104 



— unit, 60—2 

 Phycobilins: 



absorption curves, 33, 34 



efficiency for PS, 67 



extraction, 32 



structure, 33 

 Phycocyanin (see also Phyco- 

 bilins), 17, 34 

 Phycoerythrin (see also Phyco- 

 bilins), 17 

 Phytol, 19 

 Pigment extraction, 18 



— nomenclature, 17, 22 

 Pillai, R. K. (with D. M. 



Needham), 103 

 Porphin, 22 



Potassium deficiency, 59 

 Priestley, J., i 

 Pringsheim, R., 116 

 Products of PS, 3, 104 

 Protochlorophyll, 28, 40 

 Protohaemin, 21 

 Protoporphyrin as photo-sens- 



itizer, 26 

 Puck, T. T., 69 

 Pyridoxal phosphate, 99 

 Pyruvate decarboxylation, 99 



Quantum efficiency: 

 red light, 63-5 

 dependence wave length, 65, 



photosynthetic bacteria, 81 

 theoretical discussion, 1 1 o, 1 46 

 Quinone, 115, 117 



Racker, E., 102 

 Red algae: 



action spectrum, 67 



pigments, 17 



sensitized fluorescence, 39 

 Reduction of coenzyme in 



light, 138 

 Respiration: 



in light, 2, 145 



reversible reactions in, 136— 

 140 

 Rhodins, 20 



Ribulose diphosphate, 98 

 Rieke, F. F., 64 

 Roughton, F. J, W., 91 

 Ruben, S., 106, 142 



de Saussure, T., i 

 Scarisbrick, R., 113 

 Schofield, R. K., 11 

 Schuster, P., 99 

 Senebier, J., i 

 Siegel, S. M., 78 

 Smith, A. M., 44 

 Smith, J. H. C., 40, 105 

 Smyrniotis, P. Z., 96 

 Starch: 



as product PS, 2, 103, 104 



synthesis and breakdown, 

 136-7 

 StauflFer, J. F., 64 

 Strecker, H. J., 104 

 Strehler, B., 70, 125, 133 

 Stoll, A. (see R. Willstatter) 

 Stoma: 



role in diffusion, 9, 13 



structure, 7 

 Stroma, 13 

 Sulphur bacteria: 



chemosynthetic, 75 



photosynthetic, 75 

 Szent Gyorgyi, A., 88 



Tanada, T., 66 

 Temperature and PS rate, 52 

 Tetrapyrrolic compounds, 16, 



.40 . 

 Thiobacillus , 85 



