Shade avoidance components and pathways in adult plants revealed by phenotypic profiling.

Shade from neighboring plants limits light for photosynthesis; as a consequence, plants have a variety of strategies to avoid canopy shade and compete with their neighbors for light. Collectively the response to foliar shade is called the shade avoidance syndrome (SAS). The SAS includes elongation o...

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Main Authors: Kazunari Nozue, An V Tat, Upendra Kumar Devisetty, Matthew Robinson, Maxwell R Mumbach, Yasunori Ichihashi, Saradadevi Lekkala, Julin N Maloof
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-04-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4398415?pdf=render