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Life under the sun by Ensminger, Peter A

“…Which fungus is as sensitive to light as the human eye? What are the myths and facts about the ozone hole, tanning, skin cancer, and sunscreens? What is the…”
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Life Under the Sun by Ensminger, Peter A

“…This collection of essays explores how various organisms sense and respond to sunlight. It covers topics such as vision photosynthesis and phototropism, as…”
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Growth Rate Fluctuations in Phycomyces Sporangiophores by Ensminger, Peter A., Lipson, Edward D.

“…The growth rate of the Phycomyces sporangiophore fluctuates under constant environmental conditions. These fluctuations underlie the well-characterized sensory…”
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Photoinduced Seed Germination of Oenothera biennis L.: II. Analysis of the Photoinduction Period by Ensminger, Peter A., Ikuma, Hiroshi

“…The photoinduction period of Oenothera biennis L. seed germination was analyzed by varying the photoinduction temperature and by substituting red light pulses…”
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Appendix: A Menagerie of Molecules by Ensminger, Peter A

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Photoinduced seed germination of Oenothera biennis L. III. Analysis of the postinduction period by means of temperature by Ensminger, Peter A., Ikuma, Hiroshi

“…The postinduction period of Oenothera biennis L. seed germination was examined by temperature treatments. For all experiments, seeds received a standard 24…”
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Photoinduced seed germination of Oenothera biennis L. I. General characteristics by Ensminger, Peter A., Ikuma, Hiroshi

“…General characteristics of light-induced germination of Oenothera biennis L. seeds were investigated at 24°C. During dark imbibition, seeds reached maximal…”
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High Hopes for Hypericin by Ensminger, Pete A

“…Saint John’s wort has been in the news quite a lot in recent years. In the late 1980s, several studies showed that red pigments derived from this…”
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A Novel Method of Weed Control by Ensminger, Pete A

“…The sun’s radiation is the most important energy source for life on earth. Chlorophyll, the best known plant pigment, uses the sun’s energy to drive…”
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Blue Moons and Red Tides by Ensminger, Pete A

“…In September 1883 many residents of the tropics were amazed when they looked skyward. The sun and moon were blue! These heavenly bodies returned to their…”
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The Five Percent Solution to Vision by Ensminger, Pete A

“…So begins a famous passage entitled “Organs of Extreme Perfection and Complication” inThe Origin of Species.¹ Half a century before Darwin, the theologian…”
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A SAD Tale by Ensminger, Pete A

“…Physicians have long known that the moods of certain people change with the seasons. More than two thousand years ago, Hippocrates, the father of medicine,…”
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Phycomyces, the Fungus That Sees by Ensminger, Pete A

“…Most of us would consider vision the most important of our five senses, for it provides us with so much important information about the world. In fact, our…”
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Dictyostelium, the Amoeba and the Slug by Ensminger, Pete A

“…In 1869, just as Mad King Ludwig began building his fantasy castles in Bavaria, a more down-to-earth German, a biologist named Oskar Brefeld, described his…”
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A More Delightful Vision by Ensminger, Pete A

“…The colors we see depend on the wavelength sensitivities of the visual receptors within our eyes as well as the wavelengths of light that enter our eyes. In…”
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A Burning Issue by Ensminger, Pete A

“…Fair-skinned people who have had sunburns are personally familiar with at least one of the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation. But all the media play…”
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The Purple Disease by Ensminger, Pete A

“…As a resident of upstate New York, where winter days are as short as eight hours and winter snowfall can be up to two hundred inches, I definitely become more…”
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Turning on a Butterfly by Ensminger, Pete A

“…We are all used to thinking that animals see with their eyes, but some animals have photoreceptors in rather unusual and unexpected places.¹ The sea star,…”
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Vision at the Threshold by Ensminger, Pete A

“…Vision is surely the most important of our senses. A single glance instantly gives us information about our surroundings that is much more sophisticated than…”
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Too Much of a Good Thing by Ensminger, Pete A

“…Just as the wolves eat the moose and the moose eat the plants, each class of organisms in a food chain consumes the food energy of a different class of…”
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