Cretaceous - Diversity of angiosperms and Mass extinctions of marine and terrestrial life, including last dinosaurs

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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Typical photoreversible responses induced by phytochrome in variety of higher and lower plants

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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Corn and bean seedlings grown in the light or the dark

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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Developmental changes by light (photomorphogenesis) transformation from the etiolated to the green state.

a. A decrease in the rate of stem elongation

b. The beginning of apical-hook straightening

c. The initiation of the synthesis of pigments

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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Seedlings grown in the dark display an etiolated growth pattern:

a) yellow unexpanded cotyledons

b) apical hook

c) Long hypocotyl

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Expression of the other phytochrome types (B to E in angiosperms) is independent of light and both Pr and Pfr forms are stable.

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Phytochrome B (PhyB) is probably the photoreceptor involved in shade detection and avoidance. This response allows many species to greatly increase their stem extension rate when they become shaded by competitors.