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Andriy Herts, Nataliia Herts

Jul 2015

NPQ is Fm/Fm'-1? (Fm'=FmPrime; what Fm=?) How calculate photochemical quenching (qp)? Its (FmPrime-Fs)/(FmPrime-FoPrime)? Fv=(FmPrime-FoPrime)?

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Andriy Herts, Nataliia Herts

Aug 2015

Fluorescence decrease ratio (RFd) RFd= Fd/Fs=(Fm-Fs)/Fs. Can use RFd= Fd/Fs=(FmPrime-Fs)/Fs?

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Greg Austic

Aug 2015

Good question... I think that David Kramer and Stefanie Tietz are soon publishing a paper about this method :) "The One" protocol includes some additional stuff to create a FoPrime, which is used in the calculation.

I'm not going to attempt to explain it here, because... we'll I'll screw it up. I'll pass this post along to Dave and perhaps he can elucidate, or at least post the journal it'll get posted to.

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Andriy Herts, Nataliia Herts

Aug 2015

The ‘prime’ means that the measurements were performed in the light? And FoPrime=F0'? Thanks!

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Stefanie Tietz

Aug 2015

This is partially right, yes it needs light but our FoPrime is actually taken from a short period in the dark after a light pulse and a short far red pulse. The far red causes PSI to open and drain the PSII PQ pool thus opening all the centers at PSII and oxidizing all of QA. There is a paper that introduces all of the fluorescence parameters pretty nicely. It's by Neil R Baker and is called "Chlorophyll Fluorescence: A Probe of Photosynthesis in Vivo" Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 2008. 58:89-113 Let me know if you have any more questions.

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Andriy Herts, Nataliia Herts

Sep 2015

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What does each of these options? Especially Phi2_MPF: and Phi2_noMPF, FmPrime_MPF:FmPrime_noMPF and other from protocol The One v3.0.

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Greg Austic

Sep 2015

Hey Herts family :)

The One v3.0 includes Tom Avenson's multi phase flash, which improves the accuracy of the maximum fluorescence (FmPrime). You can see the article here http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.12115/abstract (sorry it's paywalled but at least you can see the summary). We're still testing out this protocol, so I have included a bunch of additional output parameters which help us compare the previous The One with The One v3.0. Once complete, I'm going to remove those additional parameters.

But since they are there, I'll tell you what they mean:

Phi2MPF - that's the Phi2 produced using Tom's multi-phase flash calculation (in theory more accurate) Phi2noMPF - the 'regular' phi2

Same is true for FmPrime and other things which have "MPF" and "noMPF" following the name.

Hope that helps -

Greg