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Molecular Basis of Photoreception

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Light as an Energy Source and Information Carrier in Plant Physiology

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Abstract

Any physiological phenomenon which is driven, triggered or modulated by sunlight in living organisms (from vision to photosynthesis, from photoreactivation to vitamin D biosynthesis, from phototropism to seed germination) is the final result of a series of physical, chemical, biophysical and biochemical processes which originate from the same “elementary” event: the absorption of a photon by the photoreceptor molecule.

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Lenci, F., Angelini, N., Sgarbossa, A. (1996). Molecular Basis of Photoreception. In: Jennings, R.C., Zucchelli, G., Ghetti, F., Colombetti, G. (eds) Light as an Energy Source and Information Carrier in Plant Physiology. NATO ASI Series, vol 287. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0409-8_12

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