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Photomorphogenesis: When blue meets red

Nature Plants volume 2, Article number: 16019 (2016) Cite this article

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Unable to run away, plants adapt to environmental changes by adjusting their development. Two recent publications explore the unexpected contribution of blue light photoreceptors in the growth response to shade and warm temperatures.

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Figure 1: A model for CRY–PIF module integration of blue light and temperature signals.

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  1. Chentao Lin is in the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.,

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  2. Ziqiang Zhu is at the College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.,

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Zhu, Z., Lin, C. Photomorphogenesis: When blue meets red. Nature Plants 2, 16019 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2016.19

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