Title: Interaction Between Blue Light and Phytochrome in Photomorphogenesis
Abstract: As far as we know at present photomorphogenesis (including light-induced carotenoid synthesis) in fungi is exclusively mediated by a photoreceptor pigment which absorbs only in the blue and near UV part of the electromagnetic spectrum (“blue-UV photoreceptor”) (Rau 1975; Presti and Delbrück 1978). This blue-UV photoreceptor is probably identical with the ubiquitous blue-UV photoreceptor involved in the phototropic response (Shropshire 1974). Isolated reports about the involvement of phytochrome in light control of fungal development, e.g., Schneider and Murray (1979), require confirmation. Trials to demonstrate an interaction between blue light effects and phytochrome in carotenogenesis in Fusarium aquaeductuum were without success (W. Rau, pers. comm.).
Publication Year: 1980
Publication Date: 1980-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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