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Photoreversible pigment: occurrence in a blue-green alga.
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A new photoreversible pigment has been isolated from the blue-green alga Tolypothrix tenuis, which bears certain resemblances to phytochrome, except that absorption maxima for the two forms are in the green and red portions of the spectrum instead of the red and far-red.Abstract:
A new photoreversible pigment has been isolated from the blue-green alga Tolypothrix tenuis. This pigment bears certain resemblances to phytochrome, except that absorption maxima for the two forms are in the green and red portions of the spectrum instead of the red and far-red. The pigment may control diverse differentiative processes in blue-green algae.read more
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Complementary chromatic adaptation in a filamentous blue-green alga
Allen Bennett,Lawrence Bogorad +1 more
TL;DR: In this experimental system, light influences intracellular C-phycoerythrin levels by regulating the rate of synthesis of the chromoprotein in Fremyella diplosiphon.
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The phycobilisome, a light-harvesting complex responsive to environmental conditions.
TL;DR: The phycobilisome, the light-harvesting apparatus of cyanobacteria and red algae, is discussed, which allows these organisms to efficiently utilize available light energy to drive photosynthetic electron transport and CO2 fixation.
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Occurrence and nature of chromatic adaptation in cyanobacteria.
TL;DR: Quantitative data on the cellular pigment contents, supplemented by measurements of the differential rates of pigment synthesis on representative strains, show that chromatic adaptation may involve a light-induced modulation either of phycoerythrin synthesis alone (7 strains) or of both phycocyanin and phyCOCyanin synthesis (25 strains).
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Light-harvesting processes in algae
TL;DR: This chapter intends to bring much of the dispersed literature together, so as to achieve an integrated framework from which conclusions can be drawn to further stimulate research on algae.
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Photochemical interconversion between precursors of phycobilin chromoproteids in tolypothrix tenuis
Yoshihiko Fujita,Akihiko Hattori +1 more
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Immunochemistry of biliproteins.
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Photoinduction and photoreversal of the nostocacean developmental cycle1
TL;DR: The developmental cycle of Nostoc muscorum, a nitrogen‐fixing blue‐green alga, is controlled by the spectral quality of illumination, and photo‐reversibility of the red‐light induction, by green light, decays very slowly, remaining at an appreciable level for over 24 hr after the primary stimulus.
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