Abstract
All life on earth is fuelled by sunlight. In order to efficiently harvest the light quanta by the process of photosynthesis, plants must adapt to the light conditions of their particular habitat. In fact, development of photoautotrophic higher plants is ‘opportunistic’ in the sense that the developmental process is in part controlled by light. It is only the basic developmental patterns of plant construction which are strictly determined by the genes; within these limits fine tuning of developmental events is controlled by the actual light climate at the site where the plant has to grow (Mohr 1982).
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Mohr, H. (1994). Coaction between pigment systems. In: Kendrick, R.E., Kronenberg, G.H.M. (eds) Photomorphogenesis in Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1884-2_14
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