Provides functions for quantifying visible (VIS) and ultraviolet (UV) radiation in relation to the photoreceptors Phytochromes, Cryptochromes, and UVR8 which are present in plants. It also includes data sets on the optical properties of plants.
This work was partly funded by the Academy of Finland (decision 252548). COST Action FA9604 'UV4Growth' facilitated discussions and exchanges of ideas that lead to the development of this package.
Package 'photobiologyPlants' is part of a suite of packages for analysis and plotting of data relevant to photobiology (described at http://www.r4photobiology.info/). The current component package provides functions and data related to plant photoreceptors, light dependent reponses and optical properties of plants.
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Package photobiology-package