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Research in Photosynthesis

Description: The determination of the specific radioactivities of the chlorophylls and carotenoids of algae after photosynthesis with C/sup 14/O/sub 2/ is a formidable task, due to the extreme lability of these compounds. The whole success of the method depends on adequate chromatographic separations of the pigments from the colorless contaminants which are closely associated with them, and yet the time involved for such separations is sufficient for marked decomposition of the pigments to occur. It is sugg… more
Date: September 1, 1959
Creator: Anderson, Joan Mary
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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