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. 1966 Oct;41(8):1289-92.
doi: 10.1104/pp.41.8.1289.

The chromophore of phytochrome

H W Siegelman  1 , B C Turner, S B Hendricks
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The chromophore of phytochrome

H W Siegelman et al. Plant Physiol. 1966 Oct.

Abstract

The chromophore of phytochrome, the plant photomorphogenic pigment, was cleaved from the associated protein. Chromatographic and spectral properties indicated that it was a bilitriene closely similar to but distinct from the chromophore of C-phycocyanin and allophycocyanin.

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