Welcome to the Quantum Yield Homepage!
The chlorophyll fluorescence phenomena and everything else web site.
This page is an effort of the
Fluoromatics programming team.
Fluoromatics is a young software
company located at
Why another page about
fluorescence?
Chlorophyll fluorescence is the main subject of my Ph.D. research work at the University of Geneva. I guess you are here because you are also directly or
not interested in plant fluorescence, so I want to share with you ideas and
knowledge, compiled software and source code, links, and documents about a
scientific field that is becoming an important tool in plant research. This
“fluorescence business” started already in 1931 with the work of Hans Kautsky.
In the last 20 years (we are 2005 now) fluorescence became an important source
of incoming for several manufacturing companies from Europe and
Today, there is a big mess in
fluorescence due to intra-scientist “conflicts” on such subjects like how to
measure, what kind of machine to use to measure, which method is valid, how to
interpret the measured points, how to term a point, “D” or “P”? “Open” or “closed”? Sometimes the answer is a question of
interests, influence, power… It looks like being masterly and masterful in fluorescence
are both a tough matter :o) In this website we focus
only in the scientific side of this exciting research field. Here, while we
consider fluorescence forget about politics and money. So, relax and let’s
fluorescence!
Ronald Maldonado Rodriguez
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Last updated: 03 March 2008