The Relevance of Photobiology
- 1 June 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 29 (6) , 353-357
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1307691
Abstract
Photobiology is a study of the mechanism by which light affects responses (photomovement and vision), nutrition (photosynthesis, vitamin D), photomorphogenesis, mutagenesis, cell division, timing of circadian and circannual rhythms, cure of some ailments, skin aging, and light production. It is, therefore, relevant to basic problems in biology, although it was once considered esoteric.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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