FEATURE ARTICLE
How Plants Produce Dioxygen
At its core, oxygen production comes down to the chemistry of a poorly understood manganese-containing complex in the membranes of plant chloroplasts
Veronika Szalai, Gary Brudvig
Acknowledgment
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (GM 32715 and GM 36442, and a pre-doctoral traineeship to Szalai, GM08283).
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