Abstract Ultraviolet-A radiation (UV-A: 315–400 nm) is a component of solar radiation that
exerts a wide range of physiological responses in plants. Currently, field attenuation …

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation directly affects plants and microorganisms, but also alters the
species-specific interactions between them. The distinct bands of UV radiation, UV-A, UV-B …

Plants experience changes in light intensity and quality due to variations in solar angle and
shading from clouds and overlapping leaves. Stomatal opening to increasing irradiance is …

Plant development and physiology are strongly influenced by the environmental light
spectrum that triggers and controls several functional and structural response in plants …

With the expeditious development of optoelectronics, the light-emitting diode (LED)
technology as supplementary light has shown great advancement in protected cultivation …

SUMMARY Riboflavin [7, 8-dimethyl-10-(1′-d-ribityl) isoalloxazine, vitamin B2] is an
obligatory component of human and animal diets, as it serves as the precursor of flavin …

UV-A/blue light acts to regulate a number of physiological processes in higher plants. These
include light-driven chloroplast movement and phototropism. The NPH1 gene of Arabidopsis …

Cryptochromes (CRY) are blue-light receptors that mediate various light responses in plants.
The photoexcited CRY molecules undergo several biophysical and biochemical changes …

A plant blue light response was documented as early as 1881 by Darwin when he
discovered what is now known as the blue light–induced phototropic response (Darwin …

Six well-characterized photoreceptor families function in Nature to mediate light-induced
signal transduction: the rhodopsins, phytochromes, xanthopsins, cryptochromes …