Antagonistic but complementary actions of phytochromes A and B allow optimum seedling de-etiolation

Plant Physiology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 637-641

  Smith, Harry ^a   Xu, Yong ^b,d   Quail, Peter H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b PLANT GENE EXPRESSION CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Qiagen Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETIOLATION; IRRADIATION; PHOTOEQUILIBRIUM; PHYTOCHROME A; PHYTOCHROME B; SEEDLING GROWTH;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0031153908     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.2.637     Document Type: Article

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