The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 15, 487-489,
Copyright © 1932 by The Rockefeller University Press
ON "REVERSAL" OF PHOTOTROPISM IN PHYCOMYCES
E. S. Castle 1
1 From the Laboratory of General Physiology, Harvard University, Cambridge
Alleged reversal of the phototropism of the sporangiophores of Phycomyces by high intensities of light does not occur if infra-red radiation is properly excluded. Phototropic "indifference" alone occurs at high intensities due to equal photic action on both sides of the sporangiophore. If heat radiation is not screened out, a gradual, negative thermotropic bending takes place.
Accepted on February 12, 1932