The cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina can photosynthesize using far-red light at the edge of the visible spectrum. A new #ScienceAdvances study uncovers the basis of this system, offering insight into how plant photosynthesis could use longer wavelengths of light. https://scim.ag/43udhqY

This paper we (@hfmarcoleong.bsky.social and I) really love came out last week in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉 In there we have: a cool new subunit, new Chl f sites, and (finally) the long wavelength spectral assignment (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

Have you ever looked at the night sky and wondered if there’s a chlorophyll f in the reaction centre of Photosystem I from far-red light adapted cyanobacteria? 🦠 Well, we did (don’t judge) and the work that followed is now out as a First Release in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I'm happy to say that our new paper (and the first one out of my PhD thesis) is out! We describe the CryoEM structure of the phycobilisomes expressed during far-red light photoacclimation, and try to make sense of why these cyano are fond of "minimalism" :) doi.org/10.1038/s420...