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Roman A. Voloshin1\*, Margarita V. Rodionova1 , Sergey K. Zharmukhamedov2 , Harvey J.M. Hou<sup>3</sup> , Jian-Ren Shen4 and Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev1,2,5\*

\*Address all correspondence to: voloshinra@gmail.com

\*Address all correspondence to: suleyman.allakhverdiev@gmail.com

1 Controlled Photobiosynthesis Laboratory, Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

2 Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow, Russia

3 Department of Physical Sciences, Alabama State University, Montgomery, USA

4 Photosynthesis Research Center, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology/ Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Japan

5 Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State Uni‐ versity, Moscow, Russia

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