Photosynthetica 2020, 58(4):976-983 | DOI: 10.32615/ps.2020.055

HISTORY
My contact and cooperation with Govindjee over the last five decades: Chlorophyll fluorescence and Rebeiz Foundation

H.K. LICHTENTHALER
Botanical Institute II, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry of Plants, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), D-76133 Karlsruhe, Germany

Govindjee and Hartmut Lichtenthaler have a very similar curriculum vitae. Both chose photosynthesis as research field and actively applied chlorophyll fluorescence. Their research was overlapping and complementary. On the occasion of Govindjee's 88th anniversary in 2020, Hartmut Lichtenthaler gives a short retrospective on interactions and joint activities with Govindjee over the past five decades.

Additional key words: Andy Benson; chlorophyll fluorescence decrease ratio; chlorophyll fluorescence imaging; Constantin Rebeiz; Hans Kautsky; Robert Emerson.

Received: July 2, 2020; Revised: July 13, 2020; Accepted: July 13, 2020; Prepublished online: July 27, 2020; Published: September 4, 2020  Show citation

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