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- Stephen Hales - Father of plant physiology
- Lipmann - Father of ATP cycle
- Winogradsky - Father of nitrogen fixation
- Destruction of chlorophyll due to high light intensity is called solarisation.
- DCMU (Dichlorophenyl dimethyl urea) - a herbicide - inhibits oxygen release in light phase
- In C3 plants, more CO2 is released in light than in dark (due to photorespiration).
- The yield of C3 plants is increased by increasing CO2 in atmosphere.
- Only 20% of the light energy falling on the earth is utilized by photosynthetic organisms.
- Plastid complex of a cell is called plastidome