photodamage

biochemistry

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photochemical reactions and photosensitization

  • chain of fluorescent tunicates
    In photochemical reaction: Photosensitization

    …light-induced bleaching (one kind of photodamage) can be observed in nearly any coloured material left in sunlight. In fact, the photosynthetic systems in plants must be continuously dismantled, repaired, and rebuilt because of photodamage (primarily from singlet molecular oxygen).

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