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Ho Fong Marco Leong

@hfmarcoleong.bsky.social
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PhD Student @ Imperial College London 🇬🇧 working on photosynthesis 🌱☀️

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Ho Fong Marco Leong @hfmarcoleong.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Our paper at @natcomms.nature.com is out! @giovanniconsoli.bsky.social By combining a few different techniques, we have assigned the colours of the long wavelength chlorophyll f molecules. There is also a new Photosystem II subunit (whaaat)! Available here: (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)
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Mapping the absorption landscape of far-red Photosystem II - Nature Communications
Some cyanobacteria do oxygenic photosynthesis with near-infrared photons using specialized pigments. Here, the authors identify their positions and colors by combining phylogenetic, spectroscopic, and...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 16/06/2026
The cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina can photosynthesize using far-red light at the edge of the visible spectrum. A new #ScienceAdvances study uncovers the basis of this system, offering insight into how plant photosynthesis could use longer wavelengths of light. scim.ag/43udhqY
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Far-red chlorophyll d clusters extend photosystem I absorption toward the red limit
The cyanobacterium A. marina shows how photosynthetically active radiation can be expanded into the far-red spectral region.
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