Photomorphogenesis in plants and bacteria: function and signal transduction mechanisms
Éditeur :
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN :
9781402038105
Date de publication :
24 janv. 2006
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,5 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
The quality, quantity, direction and duration of light is monitored by a series of photoreceptors covering spectral information from UVB to near infrared. The combined techniques of action spectroscopy and biochemistry allowed one of the important photoreceptors – phytochrome – to be identified in the middle of the last century.