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Seedling signalling: Ubiquitin ligases acting in tandem

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Buried seedlings must grow both strongly, to push through soil to the surface, and fast, to reach the light as quickly as possible. A recent study finds that a pair of sequentially acting E3 ubiquitin ligases balances these conflicting imperatives.

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Figure 1: A tandem of E3 ubiquitin ligases connect skotomorphogenesis and the ethylene triple response.

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  1. Jorge J. Casal is at IFEVA, University of Buenos Aires and CONICET, Av. San Martín 4453, C1417DSE-Buenos Aires, Argentina,

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