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MICROGRAVITY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 18, Issue 3-4, Pages 215-218Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/BF02870412
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Photosynthetic microorganisms are expected to be useful to maintain an oxygenic atmosphere and to provide biomass for astronauts in the International Space Station as well as in future long-term space flights. However, fluxes of complex ionizing radiation of various intensities and energies make space affecting their extreme environment for the microorganisms, photos synthetic efficiency To automatically monitor the photosynthetic Photosystem II (PSII) activity, of microorganisms under space conditions an optical biosensor which utilizes chlorophyll fluorescence as biological transduction system, was built; the PSII activity was monitored by the biosensor during balloon flights at stratospheric altitudes of about 40 km. The effect of space stress on quantum yield of PSII varied among the tested species depending on the growth light conditions at which they were exposed during the flights.
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