A brief history of the investigations on photosynthesis in Bulgaria.

Investigations on photosynthesis in Bulgaria started in 1941 with the doctoral thesis of Kyrill Popov (University of Münster, Germany). In 1965, at the Institute of Plant Physiology, in Sofia, Kyrill Popov guided the establishment of a special group of researchers on the biochemistry, biophysics and physiology of photosynthesis. In this paper, a brief description of research in photosynthesis in Bulgaria is presented.