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Science 7 March 2003:
Vol. 299. no. 5612, pp. 1530 - 1532
DOI: 10.1126/science.1082833
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Perspectives

BOTANY:
State Transitions--a Question of Balance

John F. Allen

Plant biologists have struggled for decades to identify a crucial kinase that orchestrates the transition of the photosynthetic machinery from state 1 to state 2, an energy conserving-process designed to maximize the light conditions. In his Perspective, Allen reveals the identity this kinase and the mechanism by which it controls transitions (Depège et al.).

The author is in the Department of Plant Biochemistry, Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Box 124, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden. E-mail: john.allen{at}plantbio.lu.se

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