Changes in light quantity and quality cause structural changes within the thylakoid membrane; long-term responses have been described for so-called 'sun' and 'shade' leaves. Many leaves, however, experience changes in irradiance on a time scale of minutes due to self-shading and sun flecks. In this study, mature, attached spinach leaves were grown at 300 µ µ µ µ mol photons m
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