PHOTOTROPISM AND THE LIGHT-SENSITIVE SYSTEM OF PHYCOMYCES
Open Access
- 20 March 1930
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 13 (4) , 421-435
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.13.4.421
Abstract
Reaction times of both the "light-growth" response and the phototropic (bending) response of dark-adapted sporangiophores of P. blakesleanus progressively increase in a similar manner as the duration of exposure to light decreases. Both modes of response are thus considered to be founded on the same basic light-sensitive system. Analysis of the compound reaction time shows that the rate of the process occurring during the latent period is directly proportional to the amount of preceding photochemical action.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Light-Sensitive System as the Basis of the Photic Responses of PhycomycesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1930
- The action of light on the eyeThe Journal of Physiology, 1927