TY  - JOUR
AU  - Nedbal, L.
AU  - Cerveny, J.
AU  - Rascher, U.
AU  - Schmidt, H.
TI  - E-photosynthesis: A comprehensive modeling approach to understand chlorophyll fluorescence transients and other complex dynamic features of photosynthesis in fluctuating light
JO  - Photosynthesis research
VL  - 93
SN  - 0166-8595
CY  - Dordrecht [u.a.]
PB  - Springer Science + Business Media B.V
M1  - PreJuSER-56265
PY  - 2007
N1  - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012
AB  - Plants are exposed to a temporally and spatially heterogeneous environment, and photosynthesis is well adapted to these fluctuations. Understanding of the complex, non-linear dynamics of photosynthesis in fluctuating light requires novel-modeling approaches that involve not only the primary light and dark biochemical reactions, but also networks of regulatory interactions. This requirement exceeds the capacity of the existing molecular models that are typically reduced to describe a partial process, dynamics of a specific complex or its particular dynamic feature. We propose a concept of comprehensive model that would represent an internally consistent, integral framework combining information on the reduced models that led to its construction. This review explores approaches and tools that exist in engineering, mathematics, and in other domains of biology that can be used to develop a comprehensive model of photosynthesis. Equally important, we investigated techniques by which one can rigorously reduce such a comprehensive model to models of low dimensionality, which preserve dynamic features of interest and, thus, contribute to a better understanding of photosynthesis under natural and thus fluctuating conditions. The web-based platform www.e-photosynthesis.org is introduced as an arena where these concepts and tools are being introduced and tested.
KW  - Chlorophyll: metabolism
KW  - Fluorescence
KW  - Light
KW  - Models, Biological
KW  - Photosynthesis: radiation effects
KW  - Systems Biology
KW  - Chlorophyll (NLM Chemicals)
KW  - J (WoSType)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:17492490
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000248913300021
DO  - DOI:10.1007/s11120-007-9178-9
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/56265
ER  -