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#### **Preface XI**


Preface

book has been published.

environments up to 1600–1800 mmol NaCl kg–1.

synthetic process.

using nanomaterials.

Two lessons I have learned during my research career are the importance of following up unexpected observations and realizing that the most obvious interpretation of such observa‐ tions can be rational but wrong. When you carry out an experiment there is usually an ex‐ pectation that the result will fall within a range of predictable outcomes, and it is natural to feel pleased when this turns out to be the case. In my view this response is a mistake. What you should be hoping for is a puzzling result that was not anticipated since with persistence

**From chloroplasts to chaperones: how one thing led to another.** Govindjee, J. T. Beatty, H.

First, we would like to thank our readers and let them know how happy we are that this

The book is a compilation of basic knowledge about photosynthesis. Section 1 deals with the basics of photosynthesis and starts with Chapter 1, which is a brief description of the evolu‐ tion of photosynthesis, followed by Chapter 2, which is a concise description on the photo‐

Section 2 discusses the effects of light, nutrients, and cultivation on the photosynthetic proc‐ ess, giving an example in each case. In this sense, Chapter 3 looks at the effects of pulsed irradiation-based LEDs on the growth and photosynthetic light utilization efficiency of let‐ tuce leaves. Because the most important environmental factor for plants is light, Chapter 4 discusses light-capturing pigments, using subtropical plants as an example. Chapter 5 dis‐ cusses the effect of cultivation in photobioreactors, which are reactors designed for micro‐ scopic photosynthetic organisms and are also used for the cultivation of plants under special conditions. Also, salinity has a significant effect under stressful conditions, and Chapter 6 looks at the costs of high salinity tolerance in mangroves, which can tolerate hypersaline

Finally, in Section 3 future improvements in the production of photosynthetic organisms are described and discussed. In this sense, Chapter 7 reviews plant nanobionics and its applica‐ tions for developing plants with improved photosynthetic capacity, explaining how crop pro‐ ductivity can be increased by engineering crop plants for tolerance against various environmental stresses and improving yield attributes, especially photosynthetic efficiency

and luck further experiments may uncover something new.

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*Discoveries in Photosynthesis,* pp. 745–755.
