Biophysical Techniques in Photosynthesis, 2008 Volume II Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration Series, Vol. 26

From the Series Editor.- Contents.- Preface.- Author Index.- Color Plates.- Imaging: 1. The Supramolecular Architecture of the Bacterial Photosynthetic Apparatus Studied by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM).- 2. Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy. A Gateway to Photosynthetic Structure.- 3. Non-Linear Contrast Mechanisms for Optical Microscopy.- 4. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Plants: Water Balance and Water Transport in Relation to Photosynthetic Activity.-Structure: 5. Crystallization Methods of Membrane Proteins: Practical Aspects of Crystallizing Plant Light-Harvesting Complexes.- 6. X-ray Crystallography of Photosynthetic Proteins.- 7. Electron Crystallography in Photosynthesis Research.- 8. X-ray Scattering for Bio-Molecule Structure Characterization.- 9. Mass Spectrometry-Based Methods for Studying Kinetics and Dynamics in Biological Systems.-Optical Spectroscopy: 10. Femtosecond Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy.- 11. Nonlinear Femtosecond Optical Spectroscopy Techniques in Photosynthesis.- 12. (Sub)-Picosecond Spectral Evolution of Fluorescence Studied with a Synchroscan Streak-Camera System and Target Analysis.- 13. Optical Spectroscopy of Individual Light-Harvesting Complexes.-Magnetic Resonance: 14. High-Field/High-Frequency Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Involving Single- and Multiple-Transition Schemes.- 15. High-Time Resolution Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Study of Quantum Beat Oscillations Observed in Photosynthetic Reaction Center Proteins.- 16. Distance Measurements in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers by Pulsed EPR.- 17. Spin Labeling of Photosynthetic Systems.- 18. Magic Angle Spinning (MAS) NMR for Structure Determination in Photosynthesis.- 19. Photochemically Induced Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (Photo-CIDNP) Magic-Angle Spinning NMR.-Theory: 20. Calculations of Electrostatic Energies in Proteins Using Microscopic, Semimicroscopic and Macroscopic Models and Free-Energy Perturbation Approaches.- 21.Theory of Excitation Energy Transfer and Optical Spectra of Photosynthetic Systems.- 22. Molecular Dynamics Methods for Bioelectronic Systems in Photosynthesis.- 23. Equilibrium and Dynamical Path Integral Methods in Bacterial Photosynthesis.-24. Density Functional Theory and Car-Parrinello Molecular Dynamics Methods.