The cyanobacterium known as Acaryochloris marina is a unique phototroph that uses chlorophyll d as its principal light-harvesting pigment instead of chlorophyll a, the form commonly found in plants,algae and other cyanobacteria; this means that it depends on far-red light for photosynthesis........


Michael Kühl*,Min Chen?, Peter J. Ralph?,
Ulrich Schreiber§,Anthony W.D. Larkum?

*Marine Biological Laboratory, Institute of Biology,

University of Copenhagen, 3000 Helsing?r, Denmark

e-mail: mkuhl@bi.ku.dk

?School of Biological Sciences, A08, University of

Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia

?Institute for Water and Environmental Resource

Management, University of Technology Sydney,

Gore Hill, New South Wales 2065, Australia

§Julius-von-Sachs-Institut für Biowissenschaften,

Universit?t Würzburg, 97082 Würzburg, Germany

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