ABSTRACT
Acclimation to changing light intensity in the growth environment is essential for the survival of photosynthetic organisms. It involves a relatively long-term adjustment of the components of photosynthetic apparatus to the ambient light environment (Rosenqvist, 2001). In order to mitigate an imbalance in the energy supply and consumption, the process of acclimation obviously involves changes in structure and function of photosynthetic apparatus (Boardman, 1977; Hihara, 2001). The adjustment of the photosynthetic apparatus to the prevailing light regime is referred to as light acclimation of photosynthesis (Anderson et al., 1995; Murchie et al., (2002). Acclimation is specifically a phenotypic expression of the adjustment by the organisms to the growth environment within the limits of the genome (Levy and Gnatt, 1988; Falkowskii and Laroche, 1991; Sailaja and Das, 1995).
