Phycochrome
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Phycochrome is a noun meaning (botany) A bluish-green pigment in certain blue-green algae.
Meaning
(botany) A bluish-green pigment in certain blue-green algae.
Example Sentences
Ohad et al. (1980) have recently shown that allophycocyanin has identical photoresponses to the phycochromes, which suggests that allophycocyanin may be the true identity of the phycochromes.
The purple-red or violet phycochromaceze contain phycochrome, which is composed of chlorophyll and a purple, but generally (not apparently different) blue modification of phycocyan, which easily turns into a verdigris-coloured substance.
It is quite possible that the writer has reckoned some of the filamentous species of the Schizomycetes under the head of Phormidium tenuissimum, since it is impossible to determine with certainty in all cases whether a filament less than one micromillimeter in thickness, contains phycochrome or not.
Word Forms
- phycochromes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include phycophaeine, cyanophyll, chromophyll, cyanophore, phycobilisome, chromophyte.
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