Overview of primary processes of photosynthesis -- Absorption of light, excitation energy transfer and electron transfer reactions -- Chlorophylls -- Photophysical properties and light-harvesting and photoprotective functions of carotenoids in bacterial photosynthesis : structural selections -- The light-harvesting system of purple anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria -- Oxygen-evolving cyanobacteria -- Antenna system of higher plants' photosystem 1 and its interaction with the core complex -- Structure and function of photosystem 2 light-harvesting proteins (Lhcb) of higher plants -- Regulatory control of antenna function in plants -- Photoinhibition of photosynthetic electron transport -- Structures of reaction centers in anoxygenic bacteria -- Functional patterns of reaction centers in anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria -- Structure and function of photosystem 1 -- Functional pattern of photosystem 1 in oxygen evolving organisms -- From cell growth to the 3.0 êA resolution crystal structure of cyanobacterial photosystem 2 - Functional pattern of photosystem 2 -- Photosynthetic water splitting -- Anoxygenic bacteria -- Electron transport chains in oxygenic cyanobacteria -- Structure-function of the cytochrome b b6 sf complex : a design that has worked for three billion years -- Photophosphorylation -- The evolution of photosynthesis.