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What does photoperiodism mean?

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Noun
  1. (biology) the growth, development and other responses of plants and animals according to the length of day and/or night
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Application of photoperiodism is common in the poultry industry, as daylight affects egg-laying, mating, and body weight of the fowl.
The three men formed an informal team to find the substance that controls photoperiodism.
Cryptochromes are pigmented photoreceptors that are involved in blue-light mediated photomorphogenesis and photoperiodism in plants.
Avian biologists and commercial poultry producers have recently experimented with the results of light on photoperiodism.
Colored mulch research can be traced to historic USDA studies dating back to 1918 that led to the discovery of photoperiodism.
Farming knowledge and photoperiodism of sorghum in the Office of Niger.

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