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Sara Buti1, Scott Hayes2, Ronald Pierik1

  • 1Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CH, The Netherlands.

Physiologia Plantarum
|February 14, 2020
PubMed
Summary

Plants avoid shade by elongating stems and leaves, a process controlled by photoreceptors and transcription factors. This review details the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) network

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