EFFECT OF LIGHT QUALITY ON PHOTOINDUCTION OF CAROTENOID SYNTHESIS IN VERTICILLIUM-AGARICINUM
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 18 (73-7) , 229-234
Abstract
The action spectrum of photoinduction of carotenoid biosynthesis in V. agaricinum has a high peak in the near-UV region with very small peaks in the blue, yellow and red regions. This suggests that neither a flavoprotein nor a carotenoid could be the photoreceptor, but a new unknown pigment system. Sporulation however is not photoregulated and is unaffected by light in the near-UV region. So, mycochrome cannot be implicated in the sporulation of this fungus. Further, sporulation and carotenogenesis must be under separate regulatory control in this organism, but not necessarily so in other organisms.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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