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Circadian oscillations of cytosolic-free calcium can be measured in plants by observing luminescence of the bioluminescent calcium binding protein aequorin. Here we describe the use of intensified photon-counting CCD cameras to measure circadian oscillations in aequorin bioluminescence from Arabidopsis thaliana.
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Hearn, T.J., Webb, A.A.R. (2014). Measuring Circadian Oscillations of Cytosolic-Free Calcium in Arabidopsis thaliana . In: Staiger, D. (eds) Plant Circadian Networks. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1158. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0700-7_15
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