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Carotenoids as Primary Photoreceptors in Blue-Light Responses

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The preponderance of evidence for the identification of the so-called “blue light” photoreceptor (cryptochrome) is clearly in favor of a flavoprotein (Presti and Delbrück 1978). However, there remain some photobiological responses to blue light whose mediation cannot be explained readily by a flavoprotein photoreceptor. Therefore, the organizers of this First International Conference on the Effects of Blue Light in Plants and Microorganisms have requested that I serve as an advocatus diaboli for carotenoids, since their possible function as primary photoreceptors for some responses has not been excluded.

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Shropshire, W. (1980). Carotenoids as Primary Photoreceptors in Blue-Light Responses. In: Senger, H. (eds) The Blue Light Syndrome. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67648-2_13

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