Why plant height increases under low light condition?

what is molecular pathway that is triggered under shade which boosts the plant height?

03 April 2018 666 5 View

Why total chlorophyll content ( chl a+b) increases under low light stress and why chl a/b ratio decreases?

Why total chlorophyll content ( chl a+b) increases under low light stress and why chl a/b ratio decreases?

09 October 2017 816 3 View

What is the correlation between photosynthesis, total soluble sugar and starch under low light and normal light conditions?

In rice, under low light condition, the height of the plant increases in comparison to the plants in the normal light environment. Under low light stress, the rate of photosynthesis(P) decreases....

07 August 2017 4,626 4 View

Is the concentration of total sugar in rice leaf should be more than the stem at active tillering(vegetative) stage?

10 November 2016 4,265 3 View

How can we interpret the OJIP curve of fluorescence in the attached image?

05 June 2016 6,952 11 View

Fv/Fm will increase or decrease under low light conditions?

04 May 2015 7,739 0 View

I want to corelate SPAD reading with chlorophyll content in rice. For this I need calbration curve for rice. Can any one help me?

I have taken the SPAD reading and then cut the leaf into small disc and calculated the chlorophyll content by Arron's method. I want to see the relationship between the SPAD reading the...

03 April 2015 7,255 8 View

Is their any relationship between rate of Chl a-fluorescence and chl a concentration?

Please let me know in terms of F0, Fm , Fv/Fm.

08 September 2014 3,002 11 View

Are all Phytochromes photoreversible?

08 September 2014 7,517 1 View

Physics: Why do we describe light by referring to its wavelength, but microwaves and radar pulses by referring to their frequency?

In physics, the description of the properties of light generally refers to its wavelength (nm), while in the range of microwaves and radio waves we refer to the frequency of a signal (e.g. kHz or...

03 March 2021 1,682 3 View

Is there any effect of different colours of light (white, red, yellow, blue etc.) on the rate of photosynthesis? If yes, why?

Light is inevitable for the process of photosynthesis reaction. Naturally sunlight plays the vital role for this process. Light may be of different colours like white, red, yellow, blue etc....

02 March 2021 7,890 2 View

Does Napabucasin soluble in dichloromethane and in ethanol?

I need to prepare a solution of Napabucasin (inhibitor of cancer cell stemness) in dichloromethane. The drug is expensive, so maybe somebody already tried to do it. If it is soluble, what is the...

02 March 2021 9,945 3 View

Which is the best place in the world for the plant biotechnology research?

I am searching for a good place for the Post Doc,

02 March 2021 4,053 3 View

Which bacteria are suitable for quorum sensing screening?

I want to find a quorum sensing inhibitor from plant extracts. Klebsiella pneumoniae, Moraxella catarrhalis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. I looked for these strains...

01 March 2021 7,675 3 View

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 View

Precipitate after adding laemmli buffer to protein solution containing Potassium Acetate?

Hi, I am running a size exclusion chromatography experiment with a buffer containing Potassium Acetate as a salt. I analyse these fractions through SDS-PAGE. After boiling my SEC fractions in...

01 March 2021 2,622 3 View

Heat exchanger with liquid Nitrogen as coolant?

I want to cool Natural Gas from 195 Kelvin to 138 Klevin in a heat exchanger by using liquid nitrogen as the coolant medium. When entering the heat exchanger, the liquid nitrogen will have a...

01 March 2021 6,450 5 View

Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

Also when RHAMM binds hyaluronic acid, they get internalized, will RHAMM also be degraded? Or both CD44 and RHAMM will be transferred back to the cell membrane? Asking for breast cancer cell line...

01 March 2021 8,169 2 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View