Amelii A., Capaldi S., Russo M., Guardini Z,. Sanità G., Esposito E., Olivé I., Maiuri M., Dall’Osto L, Cerullo G., Procaccini G. and Bassi R. (2026) Back to the seabed: the unique Photosystem I architecture of the seagrass Posidonia ocenaica. Nature Comm. (2026)17:6135
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-75200-8

Hoffmann M., Caferri R., Lam H., Capaldi S., Dall’Osto L., Bassi R. and Schlau-Cohen G. (2026) LHCSR1 functions as a dimmer switch for light harvesting. J. Physical Chemistry Letters.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6c00541

Guardini Z., Dall’Osto L., Gomez R., Caferri R., Joliot P., Bassi R. (2025) Mapping light-harvesting and photoprotection responses in the Photosystem II antenna system of higher plants. Plant Physiology, 199 (4).
https://academic.oup.com/plphys/article/199/4/kiaf588/8322307

Capaldi S., Guardini Z., Montepietra D., Pagliuca V.F., Amelii A., Betti E., John C., Pedraza-González L., Cupellini L., Mennucci B., Bonnet D.M.V., Chaves-Sanjuan A., Dall’Osto L. and Bassi R. (2025) Structural determinants for red-shifted absorption in higher plants Photosystem I. New Phytologist, 248(5):2331-2346.
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70562

Caferri R., Zhou Q., Dall’Osto L., Amelii A., Shan J., Liu Z.,  Bassi R. (2025) A stress-induced paralog of Lhcb4 controls the photosystem II functional architecture in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature Communications  16,6910.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62085-2

Canteri P., Battarra C., Mandalà G., Monti F., Bellini E., Hidasi N., Guardini Z., Ferrari S., Bassi R., Dall’Osto L. (2025) Chlorella vulgaris mutants with altered cell walls show increased permeability and enhanced extractability of intracellular molecules. Biotechnol Biofuels Bioprod. 18(1):59.
https://biotechnologyforbiofuels.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13068-025-02663-0

Battarra C., Angstenberger M., Bassi R. and Dall’Osto L. (2024) Efficient DNA-free co-targeting of nuclear genes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Biology Direct, 19:108.
https://biologydirect.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13062-024-00545-3

Saraceno P., Sardar S., Caferri R., Camargo F., Dall’Osto L., D’Andrea C., Bassi R., Cupellini L., Cerullo G., Mennucci B. (2024) Probing the effect of mutations on light harvesting in CP29 by transient absorption and first-principles simulations. J. Phys. Chem. Lett, 15(24):6398-6408.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c01040

Sardar S., Caferri R., Camargo F., Capaldi S., Ghezzi A., Dall’Osto L., D’Andrea C., Cerullo G., Bassi R. (2024) Site-directed mutagenesis of the chlorophyll-binding sites modulates excited states lifetime and chlorophyll-Xanthophyll energy transfer in the monomeric light-harvesting complex CP29. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 15(11):3149-3158.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02900

Sulli M., Dall’Osto L., Ferrante P., Guardini Z., Gomez R.L., Mini P., Demurtas O.C., Aprea G., Nicolia A., Bassi R., Giuliano G. (2023) Generation and physiological characterization of genome-edited Nicotiana benthamiana plants containing Zeaxanthin as the only leaf xanthophyll. Planta, 258 (5):93.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00425-023-04248-3

Parmagnani A.S., Mannino G., Brillada C., Novero M., Dall’Osto L., Maffei M. (2023) Biology of two-spotted spider mites (Tetranychus urticae): ultra-structure, photosynthesis, guanine transcriptomics, carotenoids and chlorophylls metabolism, and acaricidal potential of Decoyinine. Int. J. Mol. Sci., 24(2): 1715.
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/2/1715

Cutolo, EA, Caferri R., Guardini Z., Dall’Osto L., Bassi R. (2023) Analysis of state 1—state 2 transitions by genome editing and complementation reveals a quenching component independent from the formation of PSI-LHCI-LHCII supercomplex in Arabidopsis thaliana. Biology Direct 18 (1), 1-20.
https://biologydirect.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13062-023-00406-5

Cutolo EA, Guardini Z, Dall’Osto L, Bassi R. (2023) A paler shade of green: engineering cellular chlorophyll content to enhance photosynthesis in crowded environments New Phytologist 239: 1567–1583.
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.19064

R Arshad, F Saccon, P Bag, A Biswas, C Calvaruso, AF Bhatti, S Grebe, Bassi, R. (2022) A kaleidoscope of photosynthetic antenna proteins and their emerging roles. Plant physiology 189 (3), 1204-1219.
https://academic.oup.com/plphys/article/189/3/1204/6571824?login=true

Z Guardini, RL Gomez, R Caferri, L Dall’Osto, R Bassi (2022) Loss of a single chlorophyll in CP29 triggers re-organization of the Photosystem II supramolecular assembly Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics 1863 (5), 148555.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000527282200024X?via%3Dihub

S Sardar, R Caferri, FVA Camargo, J Pamos Serrano, A Ghezzi, (2022) Molecular mechanisms of light harvesting in the minor antenna CP29 in near-native membrane lipidic environment. The Journal of Chemical Physics 156 (20).
https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article-abstract/156/20/205101/2841533/Molecular-mechanisms-of-light-harvesting-in-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext

D Carbonera, A Agostini, M Bortolus, L Dall’Osto, R Bassi (2022) Violaxanthin and Zeaxanthin may replace Lutein at the L1 site of LHCII, conserving the interactions with surrounding chlorophylls and the capability of Triplet–Triplet energy. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23 (9), 4812.
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/23/9/4812

C Schiphorst, L Achterberg, R Gómez, R Koehorst, R Bassi (2022) The role of light-harvesting complex I in excitation energy transfer from LHCII to photosystem I in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 188(4):2241-2252.
https://academic.oup.com/plphys/article/188/4/2241/6454119?login=true

EA Cutolo, G Mandalà, L Dall’Osto, R Bassi (2022) Harnessing the algal chloroplast for heterologous protein production. Microorganisms 10 (4), 743.
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/10/4/743

Su, X, D Cao, X Pan, L Shi, Z Liu, L Dall’Osto, R Bassi, X Zhang, M Li (2022) Supramolecular assembly of chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like complex with photosystem I from Arabidopsis thaliana. Molecular Plant 15 (3), 454-467.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674205222000478?via%3Dihub

Son M, R Moya, A Pinnola, R Bassi, GS Schlau-Cohen (2021) Protein–protein interactions induce pH-dependent and Zeaxanthin-independent photoprotection in the plant light-harvesting complex, LHCII. Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (42), 17577-17586.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.1c07385

Bassi, R., L Dall’Osto (2021) Dissipation of light energy absorbed in excess: the molecular mechanisms. Annual Review of Plant Biology 72, 47-76.
https://www.annualreviews.org/docserver/fulltext/arplant/72/1/annurev-arplant-071720-015522.pdf?expires=1750160802&id=id&accname=ar-379354&checksum=57497A34EC39198861F8637FC248D2D0

Guardini, Z., L Dall’Osto, S Barera, M Jaberi, S Cazzaniga, N Vitulo, R Bassi (2021) High carotenoid mutants of Chlorella vulgaris show enhanced biomass yield under high irradiance. Plants 10 (5), 911.
https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/10/5/911

Genesio, R Bassi, F Miglietta (2021) Plants with less chlorophyll: A global change perspective. Global Change Biology 27 (5), 959-967.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.15470

Cutolo, E., M. Tosoni, Barera S., Herrera-Estrella L., Dall’Osto. L. and Bassi, R. (2020) A phosphite dehydrogenase variant with promiscuous access to Nicotinamide cofactor pools sustains fast phosphite-dependent growth of transplastomic Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plants 9 (4), 473.
https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/9/4/473

M Angstenberger, F de Signori, V Vecchi, L Dall’Osto, R Bassi (2020) Cell synchronization enhances nuclear transformation and genome editing via Cas9 enabling homologous recombination in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
ACS Synthetic Biology 9 (10), 2840-2850.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssynbio.0c00390

Benedetti, M., S. Barera, P. Longoni, N. Herrero Garcia, D. Bolzonella, D. Lopez-Arredondo, L. Herrera-Estrella,
M. Goldschmidt-Clermont, R. Bassi and L. Dall’Osto (2020) A microalgal-based preparation with synergistic cellulolytic and detoxifying action towards chemical-treated lignocellulose. Plant Biotechnology Journal,19, 124-137.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pbi.13447

Guardini, Z., M. Bressan, R. Caferri R. Bassi and L. Dall’Osto (2020). Identification of a pigment cluster catalyzing fast photoprotective quenching response in CP29. Nature Plants, 6(3):303-313.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-020-0612-8

Son, M., A. Pinnola, S. Gordon, R. Bassi, and G. Schlau-Cohen (2020) Observation of dissipative chlorophyll to-carotenoid energy transfer in light-harvesting complex II in membrane nanodiscs. Nature Communications, 11 (1), 1295.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15074-6

L. Dall’Osto, S. Cazzaniga, Z. Guardini, S. Barera, M. Benedetti, G. Mannino, M. E. Maffei and R. Bassi (2019) Combined resistance to oxidative stress and reduced antenna size enhances light-to-biomass conversion efficiency in Chlorella vulgaris cultures. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 16;12:221.
https://biotechnologyforbiofuels.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13068-019-1566-9

Dall’Osto, L., S. Cazzaniga, D. Zappone, and R. Bassi (2019) Monomeric light harvesting complexes enhance excitation energy transfer from LHCII to PSII and control their lateral spacing in thylakoids. Biochim. Biophys. Acta – Bioenergetics 1861(4)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005272819300593?via%3Dihub

Ordon J, Bressan M, Kretschmer C, Dall’Osto L, Marillonnet S, Bassi R, Stuttmann J. (2019) Optimized Cas9 expression systems for highly efficient Arabidopsis genome editing facilitate isolation of complex alleles in a single generation. Funct Integr Genomics. 20(1):151-162.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10142-019-00665-4

Kondo, A. Pinnola, J. Ogren, L. Dall’Osto, R. Bassi and G. Schlau-Cohen (2019) Dynamics on microsecond and millisecond timescales in the photosynthetic protein LHCSR1 observed by single-molecule fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 116 (23) 11247-11252.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1821207116?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed

M. Son, A. Pinnola, R. Bassi, G. S. Schlau-Cohen (2019) The electronic structure of lutein 2 is optimized for light harvesting in plants. CHEM, 5(3), 575-584.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451929418305795

Pinnola, A., Alboresi. A., Rameez A., Trotta A., Kouril R., Dall’Osto L., Aro, E.-M. and Bassi R. (2018) A LHCB9-
dependent Photosystem I megacomplex induced under low light in Physcomitrella patens. Nature Plants 4(11):910-919.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-018-0270-2

Park S, Fischer AL, Li Z, Bassi R, Niyogi KK, Fleming GR. (2018) Snapshot transient absorption spectroscopy of carotenoid radical cations in high-light-acclimating thylakoid membranes. J Phys Chem Lett. 8(22):5548-5554.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02486

Taddei, L., V. U. Chukhutsina.. B. Lepetit, G. R. Stella, R. Bassi, H. van Amerongen, Boulya J.P., Jaubert M., Finazzi G., Falciatore A. (2018) Dynamic changes between two LHCX-related energy quenching sites control diatom photoacclimation. Plant Physiol. 177(3):953-965.
https://academic.oup.com/plphys/article/177/3/953/6117248?login=true

Perroud, P.F., Haas, F., Hiss, M., Ullrich K. K., Alboresi, A., Bassi, R., Bonhomme S., Chen, H., Coates, J.
Fujita, T., Lang, D., Guyon-Debast A., Nogué F., Oliver M., Ponce de León, I, Rameau C., Reiss B., Reski, R., Sun N., Saidi Y., Szovenyi, P., Sreedasyam, A, Grimwood J., Stacey G., Schmutz, J., Rensing, S. A., (2018). The Physcomitrella patens gene atlas project: large scale RNA-seq based expression data. The Plant Journal. 95(1):168-182.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tpj.13940

Bressan, M., R. Bassi, L. Dall’Osto (2018) Light harvesting complex I is essential for Photosystem II photoprotection under variable light conditions in Arabidopsis thaliana. Environmental Experimental Botany 154, 89-98.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098847218303344

Park S., Fischer, A.L., Li, Z., Bassi, R., Niyogi, K. K., and G. R. Fleming (2017) Snapshot transient absorption spectroscopy of carotenoid radical cations in high light acclimating thylakoid membranes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 8(22):5548-5554.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02486

Zhao, L. Cheng, D., Huang, X., Chen, M., Dall’Osto, L., Xing, J., Gao, L., Li, L., Wang, Y., Bassi, R., Peng, L., Wang, Y., Rochaix, J-D. and Huang, F. (2017) A Light-Harvesting Complex-like protein in maintenance of photosynthetic components in Chlamydomonas. Plant Physiology. 174 (4), 2419–2433.
https://academic.oup.com/plphys/article/174/4/2419/6117631?login=true

Kondo, T., A. Pinnola, J. Ogren, L. Dall’Osto, R. Bassi and G. Schlau-Cohen (2017) Single-molecule spectroscopy of LHCSR1 protein dynamics identifies two distinct states responsible for multi-timescale photosynthetic photoprotection. Nature Chemistry.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.2818

Dall’Osto, L., S. Cazzaniga, M. Bressan, D. Paleček, K. Židek, K. K. Niyogi, G. R. Fleming, D. Zigmantas and R. Bassi (2017) Two mechanisms for dissipation of excess light in monomeric and trimeric light-harvesting complexes. Nature Plants. 3:17033.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nplants201733

Betterle, N., A. Rosa, R. Sharma Poudyal, Guangxi Wu, R. Bassi, and C.-H. Lee (2017) The STN8 kinasePBCP phosphatase system is responsible for high-light-induced reversible phosphorylation of the PSII inner antenna subunit CP29 in rice. The Plant Journal, 89(4):681-691.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tpj.13412

Wobbe L, Bassi R, Kruse O. (2016) Multi-level light capture control in plants and green algae. Trends Plant Sci. (15) 1360-1385.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138515002526?via%3Dihub

Pinnola A, Cazzaniga S, Alboresi A, Nevo R, Levin-Zaidman S, Reich Z, Bassi R. (2015) Light-Harvesting complex stress-related proteins catalyze excess energy dissipation in both photosystems of Physcomitrella patens. Plant Cell, (11):3213-27.
https://academic.oup.com/plcell/article/27/11/3213/6096696?login=true

Goldschmidt-Clermont, M. and Bassi, R. (2015) Sharing light between two photosystems: mechanism of state transitions. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 25:71-78.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369526615000515?via%3Dihub

Cazzaniga, S., L. Dall’Osto, L. Scibilia, J. Szaub, M. Ballottari, S. Purton and R. Bassi (2014) Domestication of the green alga Chlorella sorokiniana: reduction of antenna size improves light-use efficiency in a photobioreactor. Biotechnology for Biofuels 7(1):157-167.
https://biotechnologyforbiofuels.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13068-014-0157-z

Grewe, S., Ballottari, M., Alcocer, M. D’Andrea, C., B. Hankamer, Mussgnug, J. H., R. Bassi, O. Kruse (2014), Light-harvesting complex protein LHCBM9 is critical for photosystem II activity and hydrogen production in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The Plant Cell, 26(4):1598-1611.
https://academic.oup.com/plcell/article/26/4/1598/6099806?login=true

Dall’Osto L, Cazzaniga S, Wada M, Bassi R. (2014) On the origin of a slowly reversible fluorescence decay component in the Arabidopsis npq4 mutant. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2014 Mar 3; 369 (1640): 20130221.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2013.0221?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

Pinnola A, Dall’Osto L, Gerotto C, Morosinotto T, Bassi R, Alboresi A. (2013) Zeaxanthin binds to Light-Harvesting Complex stress-related protein to enhance Non-photochemical Quenching in Physcomitrella patens. The Plant Cell. 25(9): 3519-33.
https://academic.oup.com/plcell/article/25/9/3519/6097923?login=true

Cazzaniga, S., L. Dall’Osto, S.-G. Kong, M. Wada and R. Bassi (2013) Interaction between avoidance of photon absorption, excess energy dissipation and zeaxanthin synthesis against photooxidative stress in Arabidopsis. Plant Journal 76(4):568-79.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tpj.12314

Dall’Osto, L., Piques, M., Ronzani, M., Alboresi, A., Cazzaniga S. and Bassi R. (2013) The Arabidopsis nox mutant lacking carotene hydroxylase activity reveals a critical role of xanthophylls for Photosystem I biogenesis. The Plant Cell, 25(2):591-608.
https://academic.oup.com/plcell/article/25/2/591/6096676?login=true

Formighieri, C., Kuras, R., Cazzaniga, S. and Bassi, R. (2013) Biogenesis of photosynthetic complexes in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii requires ARSA1, a homolog of prokaryotic arsenite transporter and eukaryotic TRC40 for guided entry of tail-anchored proteins. The Plant Journal. 73(5):850-61.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tpj.12077

Dall’Osto,L., Holt N.E., Kaligotla, S., Carbonera, D., Fuciman, M., Frank, H., Alrich, J and Bassi, R. (2012)
Zeaxanthin protects plant photosynthesis by modulating chlorophyll triplet yield in specific light-harvesting subunits. J. Biol. Chem. 287(50):41820-34.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021925820438293?via%3Dihub

Cazzaniga, S., Li, Z. Niyogi, K. K. Bassi R. and Dall’Osto L. (2012) The Arabidopsis szl1 mutant reveals a critical role of β-carotene in Photosystem I photoprotection. Plant Physiology. 159(4):1745-58.
https://academic.oup.com/plphys/article/159/4/1745/6109586?login=true

Gerotto, C., Alboresi, A. Giacometti, G. M., Bassi R. and Morosinotto T. (2012) Independent activity of plant and algal energy dissipation mechanisms in the moss Physcomitrella patens. New Phytologist 196(3):763-73.
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04345.x

Formighieri, C., Franck F. and Bassi R. (2012) Regulation of the pigment optical density of an algal culture: filling the gap between photosynthetic productivity in the laboratory and in mass culture. Journal of Biotechnology. 162, 115-123.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168165612001654?via%3Dihub

Schlau-Cohen, G. S. Ishizaki, A. Calhoun, T. R. Ginsberg, N. S., Ballottari, M., Bassi R. & Fleming G. R (2012) Elucidation of the timescales and origins of quantum electronic coherence in LHCII . Nature Chemistry 4(5):389-95.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.1303

Formighieri, C., Ceol, M., Bonente, G. Rochaix J.-D. and Bassi R. (2011) Retrograde signaling and photoprotection in a gun4 mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Molecular Plant, 5(6): 1242-1262.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674205214601519?via%3Dihub

Alboresi, A., Dall’Osto, L. Aprile, A., Carillo, P. Roncaglia, E. Cattivelli, L. and Bassi R. (2011) Reactive oxygen species signaling in wild type Arabidopsis thaliana and the photosensitive mutant lacking zeaxanthin and lutein. BMC-Plant Biology 11(1):62.
https://bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2229-11-62

de Bianchi S., Betterle N., Kouril R., Cazzaniga S., Boekema E., Bassi R., Dall’Osto L. (2011) Arabidopsis mutants deleted in the light-harvesting protein Lhcb4 have a disrupted photosystem II macrostructure and are defective in photoprotection. Plant Cell 23(7): 2659-79.
https://academic.oup.com/plcell/article/23/7/2659/6097201?login=true

Schlau-Cohen, S., G., Calhoun, T. R. Ginsberg, N. S., Ballottari, M. , Bassi, R. and Fleming G. R. (2010)
Spectroscopic elucidation of uncoupled transition energies in the major photosynthetic light-harvesting complex, LHCII. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 107(30):13276-81.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1006230107?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

Alboresi, A., Gerotto, C., Giacometti, G. M. Bassi, R. and Morosinotto T. (2010) Physcomitrella patens mutants affected on heat dissipation clarify the evolution of photoprotection mechanisms upon land colonization. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107 (24) 11128-11133.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1002873107?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

Dall’Osto L., Cazzaniga S. Havaux M. and Bassi R. (2010) Enhanced photoprotection by protein-bound xanthophyll vs free pools: a comparative analysis of Chl b and xanthophyll biosynthetic mutants. Molecular Plant. 3: 576 – 593.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674205214607358?via%3Dihub

Arnoux P, Morosinotto T, Saga G, Bassi R, Pignol D. (2009) A structural basis for the pH-dependent xanthophyll cycle in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Cell. 21(7): 2036-44.
https://academic.oup.com/plcell/article/21/7/2036/6095450?login=true

Li Z., Ahn, T. K., Avenson T. J., Ballottari M., Cruze, J. A.,Kramer, D. M., Bassi, R. Fleming, G. R. Keasling J.
D.and Niyogi K.K. (2009) Lutein accumulation in the absence of Zeaxanthin restores non-photochemical quenching in the Arabidopsis thaliana npq1 mutant. The Plant Cell, 21(6):1798-812.
https://academic.oup.com/plcell/article/21/6/1798/6095415?login=true

Ahn, T.K., Avenson, T.J., Ballottari, M.,Cheng, Y-C, Niyogi, K.K., Bassi, R., and Fleming, G.R.(2008) Architecture of A charge-transfer state regulating photosynthetic light harvesting in plants. Science 320, 794797.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1154800?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

de Bianchi S., Dall’Osto L., Tognon G., Morosinotto T. and Bassi R. (2008) The minor antenna proteins CP24 and CP26 control the interactions between Photosytem II subunits and the electron transport rate within grana membranes. The Plant Cell. 20 1012-1028.
https://academic.oup.com/plcell/article/20/4/1012/6092227?login=true

Matsubara S., Morosinotto T., Osmond, C B. and Bassi R. (2007) Short- and long-term operation of the lutein epoxide cycle in light-harvesting antenna complexes. Plant Physiol. 144: 926-941.
https://academic.oup.com/plphys/article/144/2/926/6106962?login=true

Dall’Osto L., Cazzaniga S., North, H., Marion-Poll A., and Bassi R. (2007) The aba4 mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana reveals a specific function for neoxanthin in protection against photooxidative stress. The Plant Cell, 19: 1048-1064.
https://academic.oup.com/plcell/article/19/3/1048/6091854?login=true

Havaux, M. Dall’Osto, L. and Bassi R. (2007) Zeaxanthin has enhanced antioxidant capacity with respect to all other xanthophylls in Arabidopsis leaves and functions independent of binding to PSII antennae. Plant Physiology 145: 1506-1520.
https://academic.oup.com/plphys/article/145/4/1506/6107318?login=true

Tzvetkova-Chevolleau, T., Frank, F., E. Alawady A., Dall’Osto, L., Carrière F., Bassi, R., Grimm, B., Nussaume, L., and Havaux M. (2007) The light stress-induced protein ELIP2 is a regulator of chlorophyll synthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Journal. 50, 795–809.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-313X.2007.03090.x

Svensson J. T., Crosatti C. , Campoli, C., Bassi, R., Stanca, A., Close ,T. J. and Cattivelli, L. (2006) Transcriptome analysis of cold acclimation in barley albina and xantha mutants. Plant Physiology, 141, 257–270.
https://academic.oup.com/plphys/article/141/1/257/6115105?login=true

Dall’Osto,L. Caffarri,S. Bassi, R. (2005) A mechanism of non-photochemical energy dissipation, independent from PsbS, revealed by a conformational change in the antenna protein CP26. The Plant Cell. 17(4):1217-32.
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Finazzi, G. Johnson G. N., Dall’Osto L., Joliot, P. Wollman F.-A., Bassi R. (2004) A Zeaxanthin-independent non-photochemical quenching mechanism localized in the Photosystem II core complex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 101(33):12375-80.
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Li, X-P, A. M. Gilmore, S. Caffarri, R. Bassi, T. Golan, D. Kramer, and K. K. Niyogi (2004) Regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting involves intrathylakoid lumen pH sensing by the PsbS protein J. Biol. Chem. 279, 22866-74.
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Havaux M, Dall’Osto L, Cuine S, Giuliano G, Bassi R. (2004) The effect of Zeaxanthin as the only xanthophyll on the structure and function of the photosynthetic apparatus in Arabidopsis thaliana. J. Biol. Chem. 279, 13878–13888.
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Dal Bosco C., Busconi M, Govoni C, Baldi P., Stanca AM, Crosatti C, Bassi R., Cattivelli L. (2003) Cor gene expression in barley mutants affected in chloroplast development and photosynthetic electron transport. Plant Physiol, 131:793-802.
https://academic.oup.com/plphys/article/131/2/793/6103000?login=true

Holt N. E., Kennis, J.T.M. Dall’Osto, L., Bassi R. and Fleming G. R. (2003) Carotenoid to chlorophyll energy transfer in light harvesting complex II from Arabidopsis thaliana probed by femtosecond fluorescence upconversion. Chem. Phys. Lett. 379,305-313.
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T. Polívka, D. Zigmantas, V. Sundström, E. Formaggio, G. Cinque and R. Bassi (2002) The carotenoid S1 state in Recombinant Light Harvesting Complex of Photosystem II. Biochemistry, 41, 439-450.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/bi011589x

Dominici, P., M. Crimi, S. Ceoldo, S. Caffarri, F. Armenante and R. Bassi (2002) Biochemical properties of the PsbS subunit of photosystem II either purified from chloroplast or recombinant. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 2275022758.
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Morosinotto, T., Baronio, R. and Bassi, R. (2002) Dynamics of chromophore binding to Lhc proteins in vivo and in vitro during operation of the xanthophyll cycle. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 26913.
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Swiatek, M., R. Kuras, A. Sokolenko, D. Higgs, J. Olive, G. Cinque, B. Müller, L. A. Eichacker, D. B. Stern, R.
Bassi, R. G. Herrmann, and F.-A. Wollman (2001) The chloroplast gene ycf9 encodes a Photosystem II (PSII) core subunit, PsbZ, that participates in PSII supramolecular architecture. The Plant Cell 13: 1347-1368.
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Moya, I. Silvestri, M,.Vallon, O, Cinque G. and Bassi, R. (2001) Time resolved fluorescence analysis of the photosystem II antenna proteins in detergent micelles and liposomes. Biochemistry, 40, 12552- 12561.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/bi010342x

Formaggio, E., Cinque, G., and Bassi, R. (2001) Functional architecture of the major light-harvesting complex from higher plants. J. Mol. Biol. 314, (5), 1157 – 1166.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022283600951799?via%3Dihub

Croce, R., Cinque, G. Holzwarth, A. and Bassi, R. (2000) The Soret absorption properties of carotenoids and Chlorophylls in antenna complexes of higher plants. Photosynthesis Research. 64, 221-231.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1006455230379

Croce R., Müller, M. G., Bassi, R. and Holzwarth, A. R. (2000) Carotenoid to chlorophyll energy transfer in recombinant lajor Light-Harvesting Complex (LHC II) of higher plants with various carotenoid contents. 1. Femtosecond transient absorption measurements. Biophys. J. 80, 901-915.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006349501760699?via%3Dihub

Crosatti C., Polverino de Laureto P., Bassi R., Cattivelli L. (1999) The interaction between cold and light controls the expression of the cold-regulated barley gene cor14b and the accumulation of the corresponding protein. Plant Physiol. 119(2):671-680.
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Bassi, R., Croce, R., Cugini, D., and Sandonà, D. (1999) Mutation analysis of an higher plant antenna protein provides identification of chromophores bound into multiple sites. Proc.Natl. Acad.Sci USA 96, 10056-10061.
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Mauro, S., Dainese, P., Lannoye, R. and Bassi, R. (1998) Cold-resistant and cold-sensitive maize lines differ in the phosphorylation of the photosystem II subunit CP29. Plant Physiology 115, 171-180.
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Bergantino, E., Dainese, P, Cerovic, Z. Sechi, S. and Bassi, R. (1995) A post-translational modification of the photosystem II subunit CP29 protects maize from cold stress. J. Biol. Chem. 270, 8474-8481.
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Bassi, R. and Dainese, P. (1992) A supramolecular antenna complex from the chloroplast photosystem II membranes. Eur. J. Biochem. 204, 317-326.
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Bassi, R., Soen, S., Frank, G., Zuber, H. and Rochaix, J.D. (1992) Characterization of chlorophyll a/b proteins of Photosystem I from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. J. Biol. Chem. 267,25714 – 25721.
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Bassi, R., Pineau,B., Dainese, P. and Marquardt, J. (1993) Carotenoid binding proteins of photosystem II. Eur. J. Biochem. 212, 297-303.
https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1993.tb17662.x?sid=nlm%3Apubmed

Marquardt, J. and Bassi, R. (1992) The organization of photosynthetic antenna complexes in intermittent light grown plants. Planta 191, 265-273.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4615-3366-5_57

Vallon, O., Bulte,L., Dainese,P., Olive,J., Bassi, R. and Wollman, F.A. (1991) Lateral redistribution of cytochrome b6/f complexes along thylakoid membranes upon state transitions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88, 8262-8266.
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Bassi R., Giacometti G.M. and Simpson D.J. (1988) Characterization of stroma membranes from Zea mays L. chloroplasts. Carlsberg Res. Commun. 53, 221-232.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF02904409.pdf

Bassi R., Giacometti G.M. and Simpson D.J. (1988) Changes in the organization of stroma membranes induced by in vivo State 1-State 2 transitions. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 935, 152-165.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0005272888902125

Bassi R. and Simpson D.J. (1987) Chlorophyll-proteins of barley photosystem I. Eur. J. Biochem. 163, 221-231.
https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1987.tb10791.x

Bassi R. and Simpson D.J. (1986) Differential expression of Chl a/b genes in bundle sheath and mesophyll plastids of maize. Calsberg Res. Commun. 51, 363-370.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02907312

Bassi R. (1985) Spectral properties and polypeptide composition of the chlorophyll-proteins from granal and agranal chloroplasts of maize (Zea mays L.). Carlsberg Res. Commun. 50, 127-143.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02907141

Bassi R., Hinz U. and Barbato R. (1985) The role of light harvesting complex and photosystem II in thylakoid stacking in the chlorina-f2 barley mutant. Carlsberg Res. Commun. 50, 347-367.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02907157