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Light-Shade Adaptation in Marine Phytoplankton

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Primary Productivity in the Sea

Part of the book series: Environmental Science Research ((ESRH,volume 19))

Abstract

Near the turn of the century, plant biologists noted phenotypic differences between terrestrial plants grown in full sunlight and those grown in the shade (1,2). Early photosynthetic studies revealed that shade plants have characteristically higher light utilization efficiencies than sun plants, but lower light-saturated photosynthetic capacity (3). Cross-transplantation studies showed that some species of higher plants can physiologically acclimate to widely varying light regimes, but most higher plants have evolved to become either sun or shade adapted in a Darwinian sense.

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Falkowski, P.G. (1980). Light-Shade Adaptation in Marine Phytoplankton. In: Falkowski, P.G. (eds) Primary Productivity in the Sea. Environmental Science Research, vol 19. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3890-1_6

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