2006 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Membrane Computing Model of Photosynthesis
Author : Taishin Yasunobu Nishida
Published in: Applications of Membrane Computing
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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A model of light reactions taking place in photosynthesis is constructed using a variant of P systems. Behaviors of the model under various combinations of parameters are tested on a computer. Computer simulations show that the model explains in a good way many phenomena of photosynthesis, including photoinhibition mechanisms. A dynamical system using differential equations for photosynthesis is compared with the P system model. The comparison makes it clear that P systems are much better tools for dealing with biological phenomena than models based on differential equations.