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Photon Transport in Phototropic Organisms

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Phototropism can be defined as a change of the direction of growth of certain plants as caused by unilateral stimuli of light. Most organisms exhibiting phototropism are of a cylindrical form. The change in the direction of growth is coupled to differential growth within the plant organ caused by an asymmetric distribution of photon fluxes within the cylindrical organism.

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Abbreviations

Xw(φ), yw(φ):

parameter representation for the wavefronts

Xc(φ), yc(φ):

parameter representation for the caustic

Φ:

azimuth of intersection incident ray/cylinder

ℱ:

field of refracted rays given in an implicit form

γi, γo :

angle of incidence and refraction, respectively

χ:

angle enclosed by refracted rays and x-axis

S:

parameter determining a specific wavefront

Θ(φ):

azimuth of intersection refracted ray/cylinder in the image plane

δ:

without argument: phaseshift

A :

transmissivity

K(φ):

expansion coefficient for a bundle of rays

κw(φ):

curvature of the wavefronts

ϱ(φ):

radius of curvature of the caustic

Θ:

Airy function

f(φ):

focusing factor

μ:

angle enclosed of \(\vec E\)-vector of light and plane of incidence

Ic, Id :

coherent and diffuse intensity, respectively

Uċ, Ud :

average coherent and average diffuse intensity, respectively

F⃗:

diffuse flux vector

G :

Greens’ function

Im, Km :

modified Bessel functions of integer order

E:

energy absorbed by a photoreceptor

R:

Response of a biological system

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  1. Hydrological Sciences Branch, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Mail Code 974, 20771, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    Ranga B. Myneni

  2. Institute of Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tartu, 202444, Tõravere, Estonia

    Juhan Ross

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Steinhardt, A.R. (1991). Photon Transport in Phototropic Organisms. In: Myneni, R.B., Ross, J. (eds) Photon-Vegetation Interactions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75389-3_10

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