Blue stoplight to prevent runaway photosynthesis

Posted by on September 28, 2016 2:52 am
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An international team using the green alga Chlamydomonas as a model has found a switch that triggers the suppression mechanism to prevent runaway photosynthesis. The switch is a blue light photoreceptor protein called phototropin.

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