Table 2.

Lifetimes obtained from the sequential analysis of the fluorescence decays of the two PSI–LHCI particles measured upon 400 nm and 475 nm excitation with their relative amplitude (i.e. ${\mathbf{A}}_{\mathbf{n}}/{\displaystyle \sum _{\mathbf{n}}}{\mathbf{A}}_{\mathbf{n}}$, see Materials and methods) and average decay time τ_{av CS} (the ns component is not considered in the calculation, see details and Eq. (1) in Materials and methods). The contributions were set to 0% in case the area under the DAS was negative (see Materials and methods). Some lifetimes were fixed (f) or linked (l).

	Small PSI–LHCI		Full PSI–LHCI
	400 nm	475 nm	400 nm	475 nm
τ1 (ps)	1.0 (f)
Relative amplitude	0%
τ2 (ps)	17.6	17.3	21.4	18.2
Relative amplitude	38.5%	20.4%	37.7%	12.3%
τ3 (ps)	54.9	47.9	68.2	56.8
Relative amplitude	60.0%	77.1%	57.5%	75.7%
τ4 (ns)	1.4 (l)			0.9
Relative amplitude	1.5%	2.0%	4.8%	6.4%
Average decay time τav CS (ps)	40.3	41.5	49.7	51.4