The State of Protochlorophyll and Chlorophyll in Corn Roots
- 30 June 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Physiologia Plantarum
- Vol. 37 (3), 183-184
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-3054.1976.tb03954.x
Abstract
The protochlorophyll(ide) present in primary roots of dark-grown corn (Zea mays) seedlings has an in vivo absorption maximum at 634 nm. Red light converts the pigment to chlorophyll(ide) a with an absorption maximum at 675 nm.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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