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Fraction 2 (grana-stack) particles prepared with the French press showed absorbance changes, at room temperature and with sodium ascorbate and methyl-viologen, that were produced by the oxidation of cytochrome b-559. This oxidation was inhibited by 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU) and sensitized by system II of photosynthesis. The oxidation is too slow to account for the rates of the Hill reaction that have been observed with nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP⁺). It appears that this cytochrome is not functioning in the main pathway of electron transport. In the presence of 2,3,5,6-tetramethyl-p-phenylene-diamine (DAD) and ascorbate, light-induced oxidation of cytochrome f took place within 3 msec (or faster) in the grana-stack particles. Treatment with the detergent Triton X-100 disrupted this rapid cytochrome f oxidation as well as the oxidation of cytochrome b-559. Subsequent plastocyanin addition did not restore the rapid oxidation of cytochrome f (nor of cytochrome b-559) but only slow changes of cytochrome f. In view of the fact that these particles contain almost no plastocyanin, it is unlikely that plastocyanin functions in electron transport between cytochrome f and P-700 in the particles derived from the grana-stack regions of the chloroplast.