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During the first 10 min after a saturating dose of red light, 72 h dark-grown mustard cotyledons show no phytochrome decay. Within the same time interval there exists a transient form of P fr (=P T fr ) which is no longer photoconvertible at 0°C, but is at 25°C. This P T fr converts in the dark to P fr and P r . These “dark reversions” take about 10 min. After a lag phase of 10 min the P fr decay can be described by a single, first order kinetic curve. The time courses of these reactions are functions of the time of etiolation.
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Research supported by DAAD and by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 46).
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Marmé, D., Marchal, B. & Schäfer, E. A detailed analysis of phytochrome decay and dark reversion in mustard cotyledons. Planta 100, 331–336 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00385197
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00385197