Publications

Nov 2015

Response of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea to biochemical quality of organic inputs combined with mineral nitrogen fertilizer in an arable soil.

Muema EK, Cadisch G, Röhl C, Vanlauwe B et al.

Applied Soil Ecology

There exists a considerable knowledge gap about the effect of biochemical quality of organic inputs and their combination with...

Aug 2015

Candida albicans mutant construction and characterization of selected virulence determinants

Motaung TE, Albertyn J, Pohl CH

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Candida albicans is a diploid, polymorphic yeast, associated with humans, where it mostly causes no harm. However, under certain...

Mar 2015

Novel taxa in the Fusarium fujikuroi species complex from Pinus spp.

Herron D.A, Wingfield M.J, Wingfield B.D, Rodas C.A et al.

Studies in Mycology

The pitch canker pathogen Fusarium circinatum has caused devastation to Pinus spp. in natural forests and non-natives in...

Feb 2015

Single-molecule identification of quenched and unquenched states of LHCII

Schlau-Cohen, G.S., Yang, H.-Y., Krüger, T.P.J., Xu, P. et al.

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

In photosynthetic light harvesting, absorbed sunlight is converted to electron flow with near-unity quantum efficiency under low...

Mar 2015

Single-molecule exploration of photoprotective mechanisms in light-harvesting complexes

Yang, H.-Y., Schlau-Cohen, G.S., Gwizdala, M., Krüger, T. et al.

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Mar 2015

The Role of exciton delocalization in the major photosynthetic light-harvesting antenna of plants

Ramanan, C., Gruber, J.M., Malý, P., Negretti, M. et al.

Biophysical Journal

In the major peripheral plant light-harvesting complex LHCII, excitation energy is transferred between chlorophylls along an...

Jun 2015

Conformational Switching in a Light-Harvesting Protein as Followed by Single-Molecule Spectroscopy

Gall, A., Ilioaia, C., Krüger, T.P.J., Novoderezhkin, V.I. et al.

Biophysical Journal

Among the ultimate goals of protein physics, the complete, experimental description of the energy paths leading to protein...

2015

Singlet-triplet annihilation in single LHCII complexes

Michael Gruber, J., Chmeliov, J., Krüger, T.P.J., Valkunas, L. et al.

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

The two-exponential fluorescence decay kinetics of single LHCII complexes are quantitatively explained by a stochastic model of...

Sep 2015

Four new Penicillium species isolated from the fynbos biome in South Africa, including a multigene phylogeny of section Lanata-Divaricata

Visagie CM, Houbraken, Jos, Seifert, Keith A., Samson, Robert A. et al.

Mycological Progress