Light in the far-red region, at the edge of the visible spectrum near 700nm ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that December. It was later named phytochrome for the Greek words for ...

The red-to-far-red ratio therefore decreases with greater density. Plants 'see' this through the light-sensitive pigment phytochrome," says Ronald Pierik, professor of molecular biology at ...

However, to produce far-red fluorescence, these proteins need ... The researchers began with a bacterial phytochrome scaffold from Deinococcus radiodurans, which absorbs light at around 700 ...