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The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 62, 590-617, Copyright © 1973 by The Rockefeller University Press

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The Light Growth Response of Phycomyces

K. W. Foster 1 and E. D. Lipson 1

1 From the Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109.

Dr. Foster's present address is the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80302.

With the help of an automated tracking system we have studied the characteristics of the transient light growth response of Phycomyces. The response shows a sharply defined latency. The Q10 of the reciprocal latency is 2.4. Response patterns at different peaks of the action spectrum are the same. The gradual variation of response magnitude over a wide range of adapted intensifies parallels that of phototropism. The responses to saturating stimuli exhibit a strong oscillation with a constant period of 1.6 min and variable damping. The growth responses to sinusoidally varying light intensities show a system bandwidth of 2.5 x 10-3 Hz. The linear dependence of phase shift on frequency is largely attributable to the latency observed with pulse stimuli. In the high intensity range a previously suspected increase of the steady-state growth rate with intensity has been confirmed. The light growth responses of mutants selected for diminished phototropism have been investigated. Many of these mutants have sizable but grossly distorted growth responses.

Submitted on March 12, 1973


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