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Title: Is phytochrome a hormone?What are some of the major differences in action between phytochrome and auxin? Post by: microB on Oct 13, 2012 Is phytochrome a hormone?What are some of the major differences in action between phytochrome and auxin?
Title: Is phytochrome a hormone?What are some of the major differences in action between phytochrome and auxin? Post by: micro1 on Oct 13, 2012 Content hidden
Title: Is phytochrome a hormone?What are some of the major differences in action between phytochrome and auxin? Post by: mido1770 on Oct 13, 2012 Phytochrome is a chromoprotein whose state is influenced by light. It is mainly produced in darkness and exists first of all as PR (or P660; P is the abbreviation of phytochrome, R means reduced).
Phytochrome is the photoreceptor that activates the de-etiolation (and many other) responses to red light and Phytochrome is a protein with a pigment molecule covalently bound |