Control of early plant development by light quality
Abstract
This thesis describes how different colours of light affect various aspects of the growth and development of Arabidopsis and tomato plants. In the first chapter, we review the current knowledge of light receptors and different light-regulated processes. In the second chapter we investigated the effect of direct illumination of roots. In the third chapter we presented an overview of the phenotypes that arise when plants are grown in white, red or blue light. In the fourth and fifth chapter we further investigate the stem and flowering phenotypes that were observed in the different light conditions. Altogether we show that red and blue light often act antagonistically, and that some light-regulated processes may be species- or age-specific.
