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Chlorophyll a Fluorescence in Aquatic Sciences: Methods and Applications

Part of the book series: Developments in Applied Phycology ((DAPH,volume 4))

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Delayed fluorescence (DF), also termed delayed luminescence or delayed light emission, is a long-lived light emission by plants, algae and cyanobacteria after being illuminated with light and placed in darkness (Strehler and Arnold 1951). It can last from milliseconds to several minutes, which is by itself an odd phenomenon in an otherwise nanosecond world of classical fluorescence. Although a lot of work has been done on a millisecond range, in this chapter we deal only with the seconds range delayed fluorescence. Additionally, we have limited the manuscript to aquatic organisms, which means a lot of studies performed on terrestrial higher plants has been left out (Wang et al. 2005; Yan et al. 2005). This is why this chapter should not be considered as a thorough review of work on delayed fluorescence.

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Acknowledgments

We are thankful to Alfred Beran for providing marine algal cultures and Marina Monti for her cooperation in Prorocentrum minimum research (both from OGS, Department of Biological Oceanography, Trieste, Italy). Our colleague Jaka Razinger cooperated in PhAI idea and provided delayed fluorescence images. We are also thankful to Lidija Berden for revising the language. This work was financed by the Slovenian Research Agency (grant #P1-0237).

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    Maja Berden-Zrimec, Luka Drinovec & Alexis Zrimec

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Berden-Zrimec, M., Drinovec, L., Zrimec, A. (2010). Delayed Fluorescence. In: Suggett, D., Prášil, O., Borowitzka, M. (eds) Chlorophyll a Fluorescence in Aquatic Sciences: Methods and Applications. Developments in Applied Phycology, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9268-7_14

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