Tansley Review No. 112

作者：Christine Helen Foyer, Graham Noctor · 发表于：New Phytologist · 年份：2000 · DOI：10.1046/j.1469-8137.2000.00667.x · 被引用次数：936 · 研究领域：Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms、Plant responses to elevated CO2、Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance

The gradual but huge increase in atmospheric O2 concentration that followed the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis is one consequence that marks this event as one of the most significant in the earth's history. The high redox potential of the O2/water couple makes it an extremely powerful electron sink that enables energy to be transduced in respiration. In addition to the tetravalent interconversion of O2 and water, there exist a plethora of reactions that involve the partial reduction of O2 or photodynamic energy transfer to produce active oxygen species (AOS). All these redox reactions have become integrated during evolution into the aerobic photosynthetic cell. This review considers photosynthesis as a whole‐cell process, in which O2 and AOS are involved in reactions at both photosystems, enzyme regulation in the chloroplast stroma, photorespiration, and mitochondrial electron transport in the light. In addition, oxidants and antioxidants are discussed as metabolic indicators of redox status, acting as sensors and signal molecules leading to acclimatory responses. Our aim throughout is to assess the insights gained from the application of mutagenesis and transformation techniques to studies of the role of O2 and related redox components in the integrated regulation of photosynthesis. contents I. Introduction 360 II. Photoinhibition and active oxygen 360 III. Oxygen as an electron acceptor 362 IV. Redox regulation of photosynthetic metabolism 368 V. Photorespiration 369 ...