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BARC botanist Harry A. Borthwick, a part of the team that discovered phytochrome, studied the effect of different light wavelengths on Biloxi soybeans using a huge carbon arc light salvaged from a Baltimore burlesque theater.
Photo by National Agricultural Library, USDA.
