Making light of a dark situation

Robert Willows ()
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Robert Willows: School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University

Nature, 1999, vol. 397, issue 6714, 27-28

Abstract: Because one of the enzymes that is needed to make chlorophyll requires light, a seedling that is grown in the dark (and is therefore etiolated) will have problems when it finally emerges into the sunshine — it will not have enough chlorophyll to protect it from the harmful effects of too much light. However, the enzyme that presents the plant with this dilemma, protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase, also gives it the solution.

Date: 1999
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