Blue-light regulation of epicotyl elongation in Pisum sativum

• Published in: Plant physiology (Bethesda) Vol. 89; no. 2; pp. 544 - 548
• Main Authors: Warpeha, K.M.F, Kaufman, L.S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Rockville, MD American Society of Plant Physiologists 01.02.1989
• Subjects: Auxins; Biological and medical sciences; Corn; EPICOTILOS; EPICOTYLE; Epicotyls; Fluence; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; INDICE DE CRECIMIENTO; Internodes; Irradiation; LUMIERE; LUZ; Peas; Physical agents; PIGMENT; PIGMENTOS; PISUM SATIVUM; Plant physiology and development; Planting; Plants; Seedlings; TAUX DE CROISSANCE; Vegetative apparatus, growth and morphogenesis. Senescence; Light effect; Growth; Photoreceptor; Red light; Stem; Leguminosae; Vegetable crop; Dicotyledones; Pisum sativum; Angiospermae; Phytochrome; Pigments; Spermatophyta; Blue light; Biological accumulation

Blue light is known to induce suppression of stem elongation. To avoid the complication of blue-light-induced transformation of phytochrome we have adapted the procedure of measuring blue-light-induced suppression of stem elongation in Pisum sativum L. var Alaska grown under continuous red light. Th...