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The unicellular euryhaline green alga Dunaliella has been extensively studied and it is now clear that it adapts to widely fluctuating external NaCl levels by production or removal of intracellular glycerol. Ben-Amotz and Avron (1973) initially suggested that in the light the salt-induced formation of glycerol by D. parva was via photosynthetic products. However, our earlier work indicated that this was not the case for D. tertiolecta. The overall process of photosynthesis (as measured by light-induced oxygen evolution corrected for dark uptake) was inhibited for at least 100 min after the external salinity was increased. Nevertheless during this time a significant amount of glycerol production took place (Gilmour et al., 1982). The data presented in this paper describe some of our efforts to identify the site(s) of the salt-induced inhibition of photosynthesis.
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Gilmour, D.J., Hipkins, M.F., Boney, A.D. (1984). The Effect of Increasing the External Salinity on Long and Short-Term Fluorescence Parameters in Dunaliella Tertiolecta . In: Sybesma, C. (eds) Advances in Photosynthesis Research. Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4971-8_93
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