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Photophosphorylation

Photophosphorylation - Photophosphorylation, i.e. the conversion of light energy into chemical energy, is of two types, cyclic and non-cyclic. Two photo systems, PS I and PS II are involved in the photosynthesis of green plants.

Many workers hold that only one reaction centre is involved in bacterial photosynthesis, and hence there is only one light reaction.

Electrons lost during NADH formation are believed to be replaced by electrons from the reduced substrates of the growth medium inmost bacteria. (In chloroplasts they are replaced by the splitting of H2O)

Electron flow in bacterial photosynthesis is of the cyclic type, and is, analogous to that of PS I of higher plants, some workers; however, believe that non-cyclic photophosphorylation also occurs in bacteria.

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