THE PHOTOTROPIC EFFECT OF POLARIZED LIGHT
Open Access
- 20 July 1934
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 17 (6) , 751-762
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.17.6.751
Abstract
For the growing cell of Phycomyces, a difference in the phototropic effect of light is described depending on its plane of polarization with reference to the axis of the cell. The difference which is found is primarily due to differences in the reflection losses at the cell surface. The magnitude of the effect approximates that deduced from the theory of phototropism suggested for this system. No specific effect of plane polarized light on the growth processes of the cell need be postulated.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF THE POSITIVE PHOTOTROPISM OF PHYCOMYCESThe Journal of general physiology, 1933
- THE PHOTOTROPIC SENSITIVITY OF PHYCOMYCES AS RELATED TO WAVE-LENGTHThe Journal of general physiology, 1931