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Plant-Monitoring Fluorometer Has Its Day in the Sun

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Daniel C. McCarthy

Through the ages, plants -- and particularly crops -- have evolved to survive adverse conditions, not to be highly productive. Agricultural research, however, strives to improve both the stamina and the yield of crops by understanding how they perform under extreme exposure to water, light, disease and other conditions. Photosynthetic performance is one measure of health, and one measure of photosynthetic performance is chlorophyll fluorescence. Chlorophyll returns about 1 to 3 percent of sunlight as fluorescence, explained C. John Whitmarsh, a plant physiologist for the US Department of...Read full article

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