Definition of photosystem in English:
photosystem
noun ˈfəʊtəʊˌsɪstəmˈfōdōˌsistəm
A biochemical mechanism in plants by which chlorophyll absorbs light energy for photosynthesis. There are two such mechanisms (photosystems I and II) involving different chlorophyll–protein complexes.
Example sentencesExamples
- In photosystem II, a different chlorophyll-protein complex absorbs light at the wavelength of 680 nm.
- Thus state transitions appear to act as a mechanism to balance excitation of the two photosystems under changing light regimes.
- These trapping kinetics are much slower than observed in photosystem I, the other photosystem of oxygenic photosynthesis.
- In higher plant chloroplasts, many pigment-binding proteins are inserted into the thylakoid membrane and organized into multisubunit complexes called photosystems.
- Both types of photosystems differ in size, pigment and protein composition, and charge.