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1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 940 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Comprehensive series in photosciences ; v. 1 |
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Comprehensive series in photosciences ; v. 1.
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| Summary |
This volume emphasizes the involvement of all facets of biology in the analysis of environmentally controlled movement responses. This includes biophysics, biochemistry, molecular biology and as an integral part of any approach to a closer understanding, physiology. The initial euphoria about molecular biology as the final solution for any problem has dwindled and the field agrees now that only the combined efforts of all facets of biology will at some day answer the question posed more than hundred years ago: "How can plants see?". One conclusion can be drawn from the current knowledge as summarized in this volume. The answer will most likely not be the same for all systems. |
| Contents |
Photomovement: past and future. Triggering of photomovement -- molecular basis. Action spectroscopy of photomovement. Light responses in purple photosynthetic bacteria. Color-sensitive vision by halobacteria. Photoactive yellow protein, a pPhotoreceptor from purple bacteria. Light reception and signal modulation during photoorietation of flagellate green algae. Algal eyes and their rhodopsin photoreceptors. Electrical events in photomovement of green flagellated algae. Rhodopsin-like-proteins:light detection pigments in <IT>leptolyngbya, euglena, ochromonas, pelvetia</IT>. Phototaxis of <IT>Euglena gracilis</IT> -- flavins and pterins. Yellow-light sensing phototaxis in cryptomonad algae. Photo-stimulation effects on diatom motility. Photomovement of microorganisms in benthic and soil microenviroments. Phytochrome as an algal photoreceptor. Keeping in tune with time: entrainment of circadian rhythms. Photomovement in ciliates. Electrophysiology and light responses in <IT>stentor</IT> and <IT>blepharisma</IT>. Genetic analysis of phototaxis in <IT>dictyostelium</IT>. Photomovement and photomorphogenesis in <IT>physarum polycephalum</IT>: targeting of cytoskeleton and gene expression by light. Genetics of <IT>phycomyces</IT> and its responses to light. Phototropism in <IT>phycomyces</IT>. Phototropism in higher plants. Role of the microtubular cytoskeleton in coleoptile phototropism. Solar navigation by plants. Light-controlled chloroplast movement. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Phototropism.
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Phototropism in plants.
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Phototropism in animals.
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Phototropism |
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Phototropisme.
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Phototropisme chez les plantes.
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Phototropisme chez les animaux.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biochemistry.
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Phototropism
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Phototropism in animals
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Phototropism in plants
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| Added Author |
Häder, Donat-Peter.
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Lebert, Michael, 1959-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Photomovement. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 2001 044450706X 9780444507068 (DLC) 2001023979 (OCoLC)46600167 |
| ISBN |
9780444507068 |
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044450706X |
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9780080538860 (electronic bk.) |
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008053886X (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000054979254 |
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CHBIS 005654577 |
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CHVBK 167128329 |
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DEBBG BV039828615 |
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DEBBG BV042313841 |
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DEBSZ 367768534 |
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DEBSZ 482353023 |
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NZ1 12432991 |
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NZ1 15188834 |
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AU@ 000075306978 |
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