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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