@article{
author = "Zvezdanović, Jelena and Cvetic, Tijana and Veljović-Jovanović, Sonja and Marković, Dejan",
year = "2009",
abstract = "Chlorophyll bleaching by UV-irradiation has been studied by absorbance and fluorescence spectroscopy in extracts containing mixtures of photosynthetic pigments, in acetone and n-hexane solutions, and in aqueous thylakoid suspensions. Chlorophyll undergoes destruction (bleaching) accompanied by fluorescent transient formation obeying first-order kinetics. The bleaching is governed by UV-photon energy input, as well as by different chlorophyll molecular organizations in solvents of different polarities (in vitro), and in thylakoids (in situ). UV-C-induced bleaching of chlorophylls in thylakoids is probably caused by different mechanisms compared to UV-A- and UV-B-induced bleaching.",
publisher = "Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford",
journal = "Radiation Physics and Chemistry",
title = "Chlorophyll bleaching by UV-irradiation in vitro and in situ: Absorption and fluorescence studies",
pages = "32-25",
number = "1",
volume = "78",
doi = "10.1016/j.radphyschem.2008.07.006"
}