BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE
FACULTY MEMBER EMERITUS
Dr. Peter H. Homann
Professor Emeritus; Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.), Techn. Univ. Karlsruhe (Germany),
1962.
Professional Interests:
Organization and function of the photosynthetic apparatus, with a particular
focus on the polypeptides and cofactors of the water-oxidizing complex of green
plants.
Selected Publications:
Muslin, E. H., and P. H.
Homann. 1992. Light as a hazard for the desiccation
resistant
resurrection fern Polypodium polypodioides. Plant Cell
and Environment 14: 81-89.
Rashid, A., and P. H. Homann. 1992.
Properties of iodide-activated water oxidizing
complexes. Biochimica et
Biophysica Acta 1101: 303-310.
Homann, P. H. 1992.
Stabilization of the water oxidizing polypeptide assembly on
photosynthetic
membranes by osmolytes and other solutes. Photosynthesis Research
33: 29-36.
Homann, P. H., and L. V. Madabusi. 1993. Modifications
of the thermoluminescence properties
of Ca2+ depleted
photosystem II membranes by the 23 kD extrinsic polypeptide
and by
oligocarboxylic acids. Photosynthesis Research 35:
29-39.
Homann, P. H. 1993. Thermoluminescence properties of the
S2-state in chloride depleted water
oxidizing complexes after
reconstituting treatments with various monovalent anions.
Photosynthesis
Research 38: 395-400.
Chen, G. X., D. J.
Blubaugh, P. H. Homann, J. H. Golbeck, and G. M. Cheniae. 1995.
Superoxide
contributes to the rapid inactivation of specific secondary donors of
the
photosystem II reaction center during photodamage of manganese-depleted
photosystem II
membranes. Biochemistry 34:
2317-2332.
Wang, J. and P. H. Homann. 1995. Inorganic cofactor relations and properties of
photosystem II in thylakoids of Prochlorothrix hollandica. In
Photosynthesis: From Light to Biosphere, Vol. II (P. Mathis, ed.), Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Dordrecht. pp. 421-424.
Homann, P.H. 1999. Reliability of Photosystem II thermoluminescence measurements
after sample freezing: Few artifacts with Photosystem II membranes but gross
distortions with certain leaves. Photosynthesis Research 61: 219-229.
Homann, P.H. 2002. Chloride and calcium in photosystem II: from effects to enigma. Invited contribution.
Photosynthesis Research 73 (special issue: Celebrating the Millennium—Historical Highlights of
Photosynthesis Research, Part 1; Govindjee and H. Gest, eds.). pp. 169-175. Reprinted as a chapter in Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration Vol. 20: Discoveries in Photosynthesis (Govindjee, J. T. Beatty, H. Gest, and J. F. Allen, eds.), Springer, Dordrecht (2005). pp. 383-389.
Homann, P.H. 2003. Hydrogen metabolism of green algae. Discovery and early research
—a tribute to Hans Gaffron and his coworkers. Invited contribution. Photosynthesis Research 76 (special issue: Celebrating the Millennium—Historical Highlights of
Photosynthesis Research, Part 2; Govindjee, J. T. Beatty, and H. Gest eds.). pp. 93-103. Reprinted as a chapter in Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration Vol. 20: Discoveries in Photosynthesis (Govindjee, J. T. Beatty, H. Gest, and J. F. Allen, eds.), Springer, Dordrecht (2005). pp. 119-129.
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