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ARNON et al. 1 have shown that chloroplasts are able to esterify inorganic phosphate in the light, provided certain co-factors are added. When adenosine monophosphate was added as a phosphate acceptor, adenosine triphosphate was determined as the product of the reaction. Thus light energy is converted into the chemical energy of adenosine triphosphate, in this set of reactions designated photosynthetic phosphorylation.
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AVRON, M., JAGENDORF, A. An Extractable Factor in Photosynthetic Phosphorylation. Nature 179, 428–429 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179428a0
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