Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are working to understand — and manipulate — plant photoprotection mechanisms, such as a process called NPQ, or nonphotochemical quenching, which helps dissipate excess light energy inside chloroplasts. (newscenter.lbl.gov)
Photoprotection by window glass, automobile glass, and sunglasses. (mayoclinic.org)
«By manipulating photoprotection in plants, it may be possible to improve the efficiency of photosynthesis, and one potential outgrowth of that is higher crop productivity,» said Krishna Niyogi, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Division of Molecular Biophysics and Integrative Bioimaging and a UC Berkeley professor of plant and microbial biology. (sciencedaily.com)