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Phototropism, the curvature of a growing part of a plant or fungus toward or away from light, is a well known, but not particularly well understood, phenomenon. The general topic of phototropism has been extensively reviewed (Foster, 1977; Dennison, 1979; Hertel, 1980; Gressel and Horwitz, 1982; Pohl and Russo, 1984; Briggs and Baskin, 1988; Firn, 1990; Iino, 1990). This chapter will focus on two Zygomycete fungi, Phycomyces and Pilobolus, both of which are currently under active investigation. A recent review (Galland, 1990) compares phototropism in Phycomyces with that in higher plants. For a more extensive coverage of the classical work on fungi, see the review article by Page (1968). A more recent phototropism review with some coverage on fungi is that by Pohl and Russo (1984). Page (1968) has listed fungi with known phototropism and offered the generalization that, although phototropism occurs widely in terrestrial fungi, it does not seem to occur in aquatic fungi.
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Lipson, E.D. (1991). Phototropism in Fungi. In: Lenci, F., Ghetti, F., Colombetti, G., Häder, DP., Song, PS. (eds) Biophysics of Photoreceptors and Photomovements in Microorganisms. NATO ASI Series, vol 211. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5988-3_25
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