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Emerson effect
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English
Etymology
en American botanist biochemist Robert Emerson Robert Emerson (scientist) 1903 1959, who described the effect in 1957.
Noun
en biochemistry The increase in the rate of photosynthesis after chloroplasts are exposed to light of wavelength less than 680 nm (deep red spectrum) and more than 680 nm (far red spectrum).
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