phytochrome

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• The phytochrome in plants helps them respond to changes in light conditions.

• Conversely, phytochrome-deficient mutants of Brassica rapa constitutively expressing the elongated phenotype had lower fitness relative to the plastic wild type at low density.

  Academic text (2000)

• They soon isolated the pigment, which would be named "phytochrome."

  Academic text (2001)

• Two are blue-light cryptochromes and five are phytochromes, which respond best to red or far red light.

  Academic text (2005)

• And so there are phytochromes, phyto being plant chromic proteins that can absorb red light and far red light.

• These responses, which are mediated by phytochrome A, include seedling germination and de-etiolation in response to brief pulses of very dim light.

  Academic text (2000)

• In the 1950s came one of BARC's many landmark accomplishments: the discovery and isolation of phytochrome, the biological pigment that controls flowering and many other processes.

  Academic text (2001)

• Evidence suggests that phytochrome could mediate the production of AS transcripts of SPA3 in response to some light conditions, thus promoting plant photomorphogenesis (Shikata et al. 2014).

  Academic text (2017)

• For example, Schmitt et al. (1995) tested the adaptive value of phytochrome-mediated stem elongation responses to neighbors using genetically modified plants lacking these plastic responses.

  Academic text (2000)

• Research shows that phytochrome plays a crucial role in regulating plant growth and development.

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