The Blue Light Syndrome

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Biological Significance and Evolution of Photosensory Systems....Pages 3-4
Short Wavelength Light in Invertebrate Visual Sense Cells — Pigments, Potentials and Problems....Pages 5-24
Bacteriorhodopsin and its Position in the Blue Light Syndrome....Pages 25-29
Chemical Modification of Bacteriorhodopsin by Phenylisothiocyanate: Effect on the Photocycle....Pages 30-37
Effects of Blue Light on Movement of Microorganisms....Pages 38-49
Blue Light-Induced Intracellular Movements....Pages 50-68
Phytochrome and Non-Phytochrome Dependent Blue Light Effects on Intracellular Movements in Fresh-Water Algae....Pages 69-96
Interaction Between Blue Light and Phytochrome in Photomorphogenesis....Pages 97-109
Sensory Transduction in Phycomyces Photoresponses....Pages 110-118
Regulation of Cell Growth and Cell Cycle by Blue Light in Adiantum Gametophytes....Pages 119-132
Blue Light and Transcription....Pages 133-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Spectroscopic and Photochemical Characterization of Flavoproteins and Carotenoproteins as Blue Light Photoreceptors....Pages 157-171
Carotenoids as Primary Photoreceptors in Blue-Light Responses....Pages 172-186
On the Nature of the Blue Light Photoreceptor: Still an Open Question....Pages 187-197
Conformational Changes Caused by Blue Light....Pages 198-204
Interactions of Flavins with Cytochrome C and Oxygen in Excited Artificial Systems....Pages 205-211
Artificial Flavin/Membrane Systems; a Possible Model for Physiological Blue Light Action....Pages 212-220
Effects of UV and Blue Light on the Bipotential Changes in Etiolated Hypocotyl Hooks of Dwarf Beans....Pages 221-237
Blue Light-Controlled Conidiation and Absorbance Change in Neurospora are Mediated by Nitrate Reductase....Pages 238-243
Phototropism in Phycomyces : a Photochromic Sensor Pigment?....Pages 244-250
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Blue and Near Ultraviolet Reversible Photoreaction in Conidial Development of Certain Fungi....Pages 251-260
Blue Light Responses in the Siphonaceous Alga Vaucheria ....Pages 261-268
 Cis to Trans Photoisomerization of ζ-Carotene in Euglena gracilis Var. bacillaris W 3 BUL: Further Purification and Characterization of the Photoactivity....Pages 269-280
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
Blue Light-Induced Carotenoid Biosynthesis in Microorganisms....Pages 283-298
Photokilling and Protective Mechanisms in Fusarium aquaeductuum ....Pages 299-308
Dose Response and Related Aspects of Carotenogenesis in Neurospora crassa ....Pages 309-318
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
Effects of Blue Light on Respiration and Non-Photosynthetic CO 2 Fixation in Chlorella vulgaris 11 h Cells....Pages 321-328
Effect of Blue Light on CO 2 Fixation in Heterotrophically Grown Scenedesmus obliquus Mutant C-2A′....Pages 329-331
Light-Induced Carbon Metabolism in an Early Stage of Greening in Wild Type and Mutant C-2A′ Cells of Scenedesmus obliquus ....Pages 332-343
Enhancement of Carbohydrate Degradation by Blue Light....Pages 344-360
Blue Light-Effects on Enzymes of the Carbohydrate Metabolism in Chlorella 1. Pyruvate Kinase....Pages 361-367
Blue Light-Effects on Enzymes of the Carbohydrate Metabolism in Chlorella 2. Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (NADP-Dependent)....Pages 368-371
Blue Light-Induced Enhancement in Activity of Certain Enzymes in Heterotrophically Grown Cultures of Scenedesmus obliquus ....Pages 372-380
Effect of 360 nm Light on RuBPCase Products in Vitro — Role of Copper in the Reaction....Pages 381-391
The Photoinactivation of Micro-Algal Ribulose Bisphosphate Carboxylase; its Physiological and Ecological Significance....Pages 392-400
A Rhythmic Change in the Enhancement of the Dark Respiration of Chlorella fusca Induced by a Short Blue-Light Exposure of Low Intensity....Pages 401-407
Front Matter....Pages 409-409
Regulation by Monochromatic Light of Nitrate Uptake in Chlorella fusca ....Pages 411-421
Flavin-Mediated Photoreduction of Nitrate by Nitrate Reductase of Higher Plants and Microorganisms....Pages 422-428
Effects of Ammonia on Carbon Metabolism in Photosynthesizing Chlorella vulgaris 11 h: the Replacement of Blue Light by Ammonium Ion....Pages 429-434
Comparative Studies on the Effect of Ammonia and Blue Light on the Regulation of Photosynthetic Carbon Metabolism in Higher Plants....Pages 435-443
Front Matter....Pages 409-409
The Effect of Blue and Red Light on the Content of Chlorophyll, Cytochrome f, Soluble Reducing Sugars, Soluble Proteins and the Nitrate Reductase Activity During Growth of the Primary Leaves of Sinapis alba ....Pages 444-451
Front Matter....Pages 453-453
Blue Light Effects on Plastid Development in Higher Plants....Pages 455-464
Blue Light-Induced Development of Thylakoid Membranes in Isolated Seedling Roots and Cultured Plant Cells....Pages 465-472
The Effect of Light Quality and the Mode of Illumination on Chloroplast Development in Etiolated Bean Leaves....Pages 473-484
The Importance of Blue Light for the Development of Sun-Type Chloroplasts....Pages 485-494
Blue Light and the Photocontrol of Chloroplast Development in Euglena ....Pages 495-511
Effects of Blue Light on Greening in Microalgae....Pages 512-525
Blue Light Regulation of Chloroplast Development in Scenedesmus Mutant C-2A’....Pages 526-540
The Action of Blue Light on 5-Aminolevulinic Acid Formation....Pages 541-551
Front Matter....Pages 553-553
Blue-Light Photomorphogenesis in Mushrooms (Basidiomycetes) ....Pages 555-562
Blue Light Induced Differentiation in Phycomyces blakesleeanus ....Pages 563-569
Effect of Blue Light on Metabolic Processes, Development and Movement in True Slime Molds....Pages 570-583
Blue-Light Photoreception in the Inhibition and Synchronization of Growth and Transport in the Yeast Saccharomyces ....Pages 584-596
Role of Light at Shorter Wavelength in Photobiological Phenomena in Blue-Green Algae....Pages 597-604
Blue Light Effects on Some Algae Collected from Subsurface Chlorophyll Layer in the Western Pacific Ocean....Pages 605-613
Visible and Spectrophotometrically Detectable Blue Light Responses of Maize Roots....Pages 614-621
Synergistic Action of Red and Blue Light on Stomatal Opening of Vicia faba Leaves....Pages 622-628
The Blue Light Response of Stomata and the Green Vacuolar Fluorescence of Guard Cells....Pages 629-636
Light Induced Changes in the Centrifugability of Chloroplasts Mediated by an Irradiance Dependent Interaction of Respiratory and Photosynthetic Processes....Pages 637-642
Growth Rate Patterns Which Produce Curvature and Implications for the Physiology of the Blue Light Response....Pages 643-655
Back Matter....Pages 657-668