Open AccessBlue Light Checkpoint: How Blue Light Controls the Onset of Cell Division in Diatoms
Author(s) -
Jennifer Lockhart
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.113.250110
Subject(s) - biology , diatom , algae , division (mathematics) , photosynthesis , blue green algae , blue light , botany , ecology , cyanobacteria , paleontology , bacteria , optoelectronics , arithmetic , mathematics , physics
Diatoms are tiny algae (see [figure][1]) that are ubiquitous to aquatic environments, from backyard ponds to the open ocean. There are over 200,000 diatom species, which together carry out roughly one-fifth of the world’s photosynthesis ([Armbrust, 2009][2]). Diatoms often live under variable
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