Pigment of the Imagination: A History of Phytochrome by Linda C. Sage

By Linda C. Sage

Pigment of the mind's eye chronicles the tale of phytochrome, the bright-blue photoreversible pigment wherein crops regularly display screen the standard and presence of sunshine. The e-book starts with paintings that resulted in the invention of phytochrome and ends with the newest findings in gene legislation and expression. The phytochrome tale presents a paradigm for the method of medical discovery. This ebook should still hence be of curiosity to scientists who paintings on phytochrome and similar matters in plant technological know-how, in addition to to all scientists and technology historians attracted to how a systematic examine box starts off, develops, and matures.

Documents the technological know-how and historical past of phytochrome study over an eighty yr span
Combines info from clinical literature, archival records, and in-person inteviews
Describes in scholarly and readable variety a sublime instance of organic discovery
Accessible to researchers and scholars in all components of technological know-how and historical past of science

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