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Photomovement

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Photomorphogenesis in Plants

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Plant movement can be induced or controlled by light. In a broad sense such responses are called photomovement (photomovement sensu lato). However, the present chapter excludes the growth curvature- and turgor-based cell-shape changes (which are indeed plant movements), discussed in Chapters 9.2 and 9.3. Thus, here, photomovement sensu stricto comprises locomotion of whole organisms (mostly unicells or cell colonies) and intracellular movement (displacement of cell organelles) under the regulatory influence of light. Both phenomena will be discussed separately, and afterwards similarities and differences between them will be pointed out.

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  1. Institut für Botanik und Pharmazeutische Biologie, Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr. 5, 91058, Erlangen, Germany

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  1. Department of Plant Physiology, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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  2. Laboratory for Photoperception and Signal Transduction, Frontier Research Program, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako City, Saitama, Japan

    R. E. Kendrick

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Haupt, W., Häder, DP. (1994). Photomovement. In: Kendrick, R.E., Kronenberg, G.H.M. (eds) Photomorphogenesis in Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1884-2_25

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