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Caterina Gerotto
Researcher at University of Padua
Publications - 21
Citations - 1117
Caterina Gerotto is an academic researcher from University of Padua. The author has contributed to research in topics: Photosystem I & Light-harvesting complex. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 20 publications receiving 950 citations. Previous affiliations of Caterina Gerotto include University of Turku.
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Physcomitrella patens mutants affected on heat dissipation clarify the evolution of photoprotection mechanisms upon land colonization
TL;DR: It is suggested that NPQ is a fundamental mechanism for survival in excess light and that upon land colonization, photosynthetic organisms evolved a unique mechanism for excess energy dissipation before losing the ancestral one found in algae.
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Flavodiiron proteins act as safety valve for electrons in Physcomitrella patens.
Caterina Gerotto,Alessandro Alboresi,Andrea Meneghesso,Martina Jokel,Marjaana Suorsa,Eva-Mari Aro,Tomas Morosinotto +6 more
TL;DR: In P. patens, Flavodiiron (FLV) proteins are acting as an electron sink to avoid photosynthetic electron transport chain over-reduction after any increase in illumination and are fundamental for protection under fluctuating light conditions.
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Zeaxanthin Binds to Light-Harvesting Complex Stress-Related Protein to Enhance Nonphotochemical Quenching in Physcomitrella patens
Alberta Pinnola,Luca Dall'Osto,Caterina Gerotto,Tomas Morosinotto,Roberto Bassi,Alessandro Alboresi +5 more
TL;DR: It is reported that zeaxanthin, an NPQ enhancer, is far more active on LHCSR- dependent NPQ than on the PSBS-dependent NPQ, and biochemical evidence that native LH CSR protein binds zeaxAnthin upon excess light stress is provided.
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Role of PSBS and LHCSR in Physcomitrella patens acclimation to high light and low temperature.
TL;DR: The acclimation of Physcomitrella to high light and low temperature is analysed, finding that these conditions induce an increase in NPQ correlated to overexpression of both PSBS and LHCSR, and that modulation of their accumulation indeed determines NPQ amplitude.
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Programmed Cell Death and Adaptation: Two Different Types of Abiotic Stress Response in a Unicellular Chlorophyte
TL;DR: Results suggest that C. saccharophila can undergo PCD under stress conditions, and that this PCD shares several features with metazoan PCD, and the simultaneous exposure of this unicellular chlorophyte to different abiotic stresses results in a tolerance mechanism.