Photosynthetica 1999, 36(1):1 | DOI: 10.1023/A:1007025500452

Photosynthesis in Cuscuta Reflexa: A Total Plant Parasite

N. K. Choudhury1, D. Sahu1
1 Laboratory of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Life Sciences, Sambalpur University, Jyotivihar, Sambalpur, India

Photosynthetic properties of Cuscuta species, such as chloroplast ultrastructure, contents of chlorophylls, carotenoids, and plastid proteins, photosystem and CO2 fixation activities, and photosynthetic genes composition are reviewed.

Additional key words: carotenoids; chlorophyll; chloroplast ultrastructure; CO2 fixation; genes; photosystems 1 and 2; plastid proteins

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