photoperiodism

id: GO:0009648
name: photoperiodism
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Any process that results in a change in state or activity of an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of detection of, or exposure to, a period of light or dark of a given length, measured relative to a particular duration known as the 'critical day length'. The critical day length varies between species.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0009906response to photoperiod, blue light
GO:0009907response to photoperiod, red light
GO:0043153entrainment of circadian clock by photoperiod
GO:0048571long-day photoperiodism
GO:0048572short-day photoperiodism
GO:0048573photoperiodism, flowering

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0009416response to light stimulus