publishes original scientific papers and brief communications, reviews on specialized topics, book reviews and announcements and reports covering wide range of photosynthesis research or research including photosynthetic parameters of both experimental and theoretical nature and dealing with physiology, biophysics, biochemistry, molecular biology on one side and leaf optics, stress physiology and ecology of photosynthesis on the other side.

The language of journal is English (British or American). Papers should not be published or under consideration for publication elsewhere.

  • ISSN: 0300-3604 (print version - until 2019)
  • eISSN: 1573-9058 (electronic version)

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  • Journal Impact Factor: 2.482 (2021)
  • Ranking within categories: Plant Sciences – 109/238 (Q2)
  • Article Influence Score: 0.497 (2021)
  • Ranking within categories: Plant Sciences – 78/258 (Q2)

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The journal was established in 1967.

Photosynthetica is currently covered by the following services: WOS, Scopus, DOAJ, Google Scholar, EBSCO, Mendeley

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Journal Impact Factor contributing items in 2019 and 2020

Chlorophyll a fluorescence parameters as indicators of a particular abiotic stress in rice
FASEELA, P.; SINISHA, A. K.; BRESTIC, M.; PUTHUR, J. T.
PHOTOSYNTHETICA 58 (SI): 293-300, 2020 | DOI: 10.32615/ps.2019.147
Accession number: WOS:000524480200011
Number of citations: 42

Phytotoxic effect of silver nanoparticles in Triticum aestivum: Improper regulation of photosystem I activity as the reason for oxidative damage in the chloroplast
RASTOGI, A.; ZIVCAK, M.; TRIPATHI, D. K.; YADAV, S.; KALAJI, H. M.; BRESTIC, M.
PHOTOSYNTHETICA 57 (1): 209-216, 2019 | DOI: 10.32615/ps.2019.019
Accession number: WOS:000466359200024
Number of citations: 21

Revisiting JIP-test: An educative review on concepts, assumptions, approximations, definitions and terminology
TSIMILLI-MICHAEL, M.
PHOTOSYNTHETICA 58 (SI): 275-292, 2020| DOI: 10.32615/ps.2019.150
Accession number: WOS:000524480200010
Number of citations: 18

JIP-test as a tool to identify salinity tolerance in sweet sorghum genotypes
RASTOGI, A.;MBARKI, S.;BRESTIC, M.;KOVAR, M.;HE, X.;ZIVCAK, M.;KATARIA, S.;KALAJI, H. M.;SKALICKY, M.;IBRAHIMOVA, U. F.; ET AL.
PHOTOSYNTHETICA 58 (SI): 518-528, 2020| DOI: 10.32615/ps.2019.169
Accession number: WOS:000524480200034
Number of citations: 16

Comparative analysis of drought stress response of maize genotypes using chlorophyll fluorescence measurements and leaf relative water content
BADR, A.; BRUEGGEMANN, W.
PHOTOSYNTHETICA 58 (SI): 638-645, 2020| DOI: 10.32615/ps.2020.014
Accession number: WOS:000524480200044
Number of citations: 10

Effects of salicylic acid on photosynthetic activity and chloroplast morphology under light and prolonged darkness
POOR, P.; BORBELY, P.; BODI, N.; BAGYANSZKI, M.; TARI, I.
PHOTOSYNTHETICA 57 (2): 367-376, 2019|DOI:10.32615/ps.2019.040
Accession number: WOS:000468117400002
Number of citations: 10

Effects of melatonin on photosynthesis and soybean seed growth during grain filling under drought stress
ZOU, J. N.;JIN, X. J.;ZHANG, Y. X.;REN, C. Y.;ZHANG, M. C.;WANG, M. X.
PHOTOSYNTHETICA 57 (2): 512-520, 2019|DOI: 10.32615/ps.2019.066
Accession number: WOS:000468117400017
Number of citations: 10

Responses of photosynthetic apparatus in sunflower cultivars to combined drought and salt stress
UMAR, M.;UDDIN, Z.;SIDDIQUI, Z. S.
PHOTOSYNTHETICA 57 (2): 627-639, 2019|DOI: 10.32615/ps.2019.043
Accession number: WOS:000468117400031
Number of citations: 10

Intelligent image analysis for retrieval of leaf chlorophyll content of rice from digital images of smartphone under natural light
MOHAN, P. JAGAN; GUPTA, S. DUTTA
PHOTOSYNTHETICA 57 (2): 388-398, 2019|DOI: 10.32615/ps.2019.046
Accession number: WOS:000468117400004
Number of citations: 9

Exogenous spermidine enhances salt-stressed rice photosynthetic performance by stabilizing structure and function of chloroplast and thylakoid membranes
JIANG, D. X.; CHU, X.; LI, M.; HOU, J. J.; TONG, X.; GAO, Z. P.; CHEN, G. X.
PHOTOSYNTHETICA 58 (1): 61-71, 2020|DOI: 10.32615/ps.2019.160
Accession number: WOS:000518819800008
Number of citations: 8

Top 4 from CrossRef (all years) popular DOIs

Below are the top 4 successfully resolved DOIs for January 2021. This list represents the most popular DOIs, as measured by the number of times each DOI was successfully resolved in last 12 months.

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Imaging of the Blue, Green, and Red Fluorescence Emission of Plants: An Overview
C. BUSCHMANN, G. LANGSDORF, H.K. LICHTENTHALER
Photosynthetica 38: 483-491, 2000 | DOI: 10.1023/A:1012440903014

Photosynthesis under stressful environments: An overview
M. ASHRAF, P. J. C. HARRIS
Photosynthetica 51: 163-190, 2013 | DOI: 10.1007/s11099-013-0021-6

Influence of irradiance, dissolved oxygen concentration, and temperature on the growth of Chlorella sorokiniana
C. U. UGWU, H. AOYAGI, H. UCHIYAMA
Photosynthetica 45: 309-311, 2007 | DOI: 10.1007/s11099-007-0052-y

Phycobilisome isolation and C-phycocyanin purification from the cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon gracile
R. PIRON, T. BUSTAMANTE, A. BARRIGA, N. LAGOS
Photosynthetica 57: 491-499, 2019 | DOI: 10.32615/ps.2019.064

Top 4 from the Special Issue in honour of Prof. Reto J. Strasser

Special issue in honour of Prof. Reto J. Strasser – Chlorophyll a fluorescence parameters as indicators of a particular abiotic stress in rice
P. FASEELA, A.K. SINISHA, M. BRESTIČ, J.T. PUTHUR
Photosynthetica 58(SI): 293-300, 2020 | DOI: 10.32615/ps.2019.147
Number of citations: 69

Special issue in honour of Prof. Reto J. Strasser – Revisiting JIP-test: An educative review on concepts, assumptions, approximations, definitions and terminology
M. TSIMILLI-MICHAEL
Photosynthetica 58(SI): 275-292, 2020 | DOI: 10.32615/ps.2019.150
Number of citations: 29

Special issue in honour of Prof. Reto J. Strasser – JIP-test as a tool to identify salinity tolerance in sweet sorghum genotypes
A. RASTOGI, M. KOVAR, X. HE, M. ZIVCAK, S. KATARIA, H.M. KALAJI, M. SKALICKY, U.F. IBRAHIMOVA, S. HUSSAIN, S. MBARKI, M. BRESTIC
Photosynthetica 58(SI): 518-528, 2020 | DOI: 10.32615/ps.2019.169
Number of citations: 25

Special issue in honour of Prof. Reto J. Strasser – Comparative analysis of drought stress response of maize genotypes using chlorophyll fluorescence measurements and leaf relative water content
A. BADR, W. BRÜGGEMANN
Photosynthetica 58(SI): 638-645, 2020 | DOI: 10.32615/ps.2020.014
Number of citations: 16

TOP 10 DOIs from Downloads (ps.ueb.cas.cz)

1. Effects of salt stress on basic processes of photosynthesis. A review
P. SUDHIR and S.D.S. MURTHY
Photosynthetica 42 (4): 481-486, 2004 | DOI: 10.1007/S11099-005-0001-6

2. Universal chlorophyll equations for estimating chlorophylls a, b, c, and d and total chlorophylls in natural assemblages of photosynthetic organisms using acetone, methanol, or ethanol solvents.
R.J. RITCHIE
Photosynthetica 46 (1): 115-126, 2008 | DOI: 10.1007/s11099-008-0019-7

3. Photosynthesis under stressful environments: An overview
M. ASHRAF and P.J.C. HARRIS
Photosynthetica 51 (2): 163-190, 2013 | DOI: 10.1007/s11099-013-0021-6

4. Uniconazole confers chilling stress tolerance in soybean (Glycine max L.) by modulating photosynthesis, photoinhibition, and activating oxygen metabolism system
J.J. ZHAO, N.F. FENG, X.X. WANG, G.R. CAI, M.Y. CAO, D.F. ZHENG, and H.D. ZHU
Photosynthetica 57 (2): 446-457, 2019 | DOI: 10.32615/ps.2019.059

5. Morphological and physiological acclimation of Catalpa bungei plantlets to different light conditions
C. J.W. WU, Y. SU, J.H.WANG, Q. HE, Q. QIU, J.W. MA, and J.Y. LI
Photosynthetica 56 (2): 537-548, 2018 | DOI: 10.1007/s11099-017-0706-3

6. Influence of foliar-applied triacontanol on growth, gas exchange characteristics, and chlorophyll fluorescence at different growth stages in wheat under saline conditions
S. PERVEEN, M. SHAHBAZ, and M. ASHRAF
Photosynthetica 51 (4): 541-551, 2013 | DOI: 10.1007/s11099-013-0054-x

7. Photoinhibition and continuous growth of the wild-type and a high-light tolerant strain of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
O. VIRTANEN, D. VALEV, O. KRUSE, L. WOBBE, and E. TYYSTJÄRVI
Photosynthetica 57 (2): 617-626, 2019 | DOI: 10.32615/ps.2019.056

8. Chlorophyll fluorescence as a tool in cereal crop research
O.H. SAYED
Photosynthetica 41 (3): 321-330, 2003 | DOI: 10.1023/B:PHOT.0000015454.36367.e2

9. Effects of exogenous glucose and sucrose on photosynthesis in triticale seedlings under salt stress
L.H. WANG, G.L. LI, S. WEI, L. J. LI, S.Y. ZUO, X. LIU, W.R. GU, and J. LI
Photosynthetica 57 (1): 286-294, 2019 | DOI: 10.32615/ps.2019.030

10. Photosynthetic response of cabbage in cadmium-spiked soil
R. BĄCZEK-KWINTA, K. JUZOŃ, M. BOREK, and J. ANTONKIEWICZ
Photosynthetica 57 (3): 731-739, 2019 | DOI: 10.32615/ps.2019.070