| At | Arabidopsis thaliana |
| FL | fluctuating light |
| HL | high light |
| LL | low light |
| NPQ | non-photochemical quenching |
| npq1 | Arabidopsis thaliana mutant, see description in Materials and methods |
| npq4 | Arabidopsis thaliana mutant, see description in Materials and methods |
| PsbS | photoprotective protein from the light harvesting complex family |
| WT | wild type |
| Zx | zeaxanthin |
| Ax | antheraxanthin |
| Vx | violaxanthin |
| VDE | violaxanthin de-epoxidase |