Plant development: should I stop or should I grow?

Séverine Lorrain; Christian Fankhauser

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.054

Plant development: should I stop or should I grow?

Curr Biol. 2012 Aug 21;22(16):R645-7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.054.

Authors

Séverine Lorrain¹, Christian Fankhauser

Affiliation

¹ Centre for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

PMID: 22917515
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.054

Abstract

Plant growth is tightly controlled through the integration of environmental cues with the physiological status of the seedling. A recent study now proposes a model explaining how the plant hormone ethylene triggers opposite growth responses depending on the light environment.

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MeSH terms

Arabidopsis / metabolism*
Arabidopsis Proteins / metabolism*
Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors / metabolism*
DNA-Binding Proteins
Ethylenes / metabolism*
Light*
Nuclear Proteins / metabolism*
Transcription Factors / metabolism*

Substances

Arabidopsis Proteins
Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors
DNA-Binding Proteins
EIN3 protein, Arabidopsis
Ethylenes
Nuclear Proteins
PIF3 protein, Arabidopsis
Transcription Factors
ethylene