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1 Introduction
Photosynthesis is a fundamental process on the Earth’s surface that can convert the
sunlight energy to chemical energy that can be used by essentially all forms all life
(Komissarov 2003; Krauß 2003). The outstanding English chemist Joseph Priestley
Photosynthesis in Nature: A New Look
K. M. G. Mostofa et al. (eds.), Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter,
Environmental Science and Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32223-5_7,
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Khan M. G. Mostofa, Cong-qiang Liu, Xiangliang Pan, Takahito Yoshioka,
Davide Vione, Daisuke Minakata, Kunshan Gao, Hiroshi Sakugawa
and Gennady G. Komissarov
K. M. G. Mostofa (*) · C. Liu
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550002, China
e-mail: mostofa@vip.gyig.ac.cn
X. L. Pan
Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Utilization in Arid Zone, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology
and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, People’s Republic of China
T. Yoshioka
Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwake-cho,
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
D. Vione
Dipartimento Chim Analit, University Turin, I-10125 Turin, Italy
Centro Interdipartimentale NatRisk, I-10095 Grugliasco, (TO), Italy
D. Minakata
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems
Georgia Institute of Technology, 828 West Peachtree Street, Suite 320, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
K. Gao
State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
H. Sakugawa
Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Department of Environmental Dynamics
and Management, Hiroshima University, 1-7-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521, Japan
G. G. Komissarov
Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117977, Russia
1 Introduction
Photosynthesis is a fundamental process on the Earth’s surface that can convert the
sunlight energy to chemical energy that can be used by essentially all forms all life
(Komissarov 2003; Krauß 2003). The outstanding English chemist Joseph Priestley
Photosynthesis in Nature: A New Look
K. M. G. Mostofa et al. (eds.), Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter,
Environmental Science and Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32223-5_7,
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Khan M. G. Mostofa, Cong-qiang Liu, Xiangliang Pan, Takahito Yoshioka,
Davide Vione, Daisuke Minakata, Kunshan Gao, Hiroshi Sakugawa
and Gennady G. Komissarov
K. M. G. Mostofa (*) · C. Liu
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550002, China
e-mail: mostofa@vip.gyig.ac.cn
X. L. Pan
Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Utilization in Arid Zone, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology
and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, People’s Republic of China
T. Yoshioka
Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwake-cho,
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
D. Vione
Dipartimento Chim Analit, University Turin, I-10125 Turin, Italy
Centro Interdipartimentale NatRisk, I-10095 Grugliasco, (TO), Italy
D. Minakata
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems
Georgia Institute of Technology, 828 West Peachtree Street, Suite 320, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
K. Gao
State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
H. Sakugawa
Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Department of Environmental Dynamics
and Management, Hiroshima University, 1-7-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521, Japan
G. G. Komissarov
Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117977, Russia