Plant neighbor detection through touching leaf tips precedes phytochrome signals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 36, 2012, Pages 14705-14710

  Wit, Mieke de ^c   Kegge, Wouter ^a   Evers, Jochem B ^b   Vergeer Van Eijk, Marleen H ^a   Gankema, Paulien ^a   Voesenek, Laurentius A C J ^a   Pierik, Ronald ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Canopy development; Competition; Phenotypic plasticity; Thigmomorphogenesis

Indexed keywords

PHYTOCHROME; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CANOPY; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAR RED LIGHT; LEAF GROWTH; LIGHT QUALITY; MARKER GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROSETTE FORMATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; VEGETATION; VEGETATIVE STAGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETHYLENES; LIGHT; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT LEAVES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84871685440     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205437109     Document Type: Article

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