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An ever increasing amount of transcriptomic data and analysis tools provide novel insight into complex responses of biological systems. Given these resources we have undertaken to review aspects of transcriptional regulation in response to the plant hormone gibberellic acid (GA) and its second messenger guanosine 3’,5’-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) in Arabidopsis thaliana, both wild type and selected mutants. Evidence suggests enrichment of GA-responsive (GARE) elements in promoters of genes that are transcriptionally up-regulated in response to cGMP but down-regulated in a GA insensitive mutant (ga1-3). In contrast, in the genes up-regulated in the mutant, no enrichment in the GARE is observed suggesting that GARE elements are diagnostic for GA-induced and cGMP-dependent transcriptional up-regulation. Further, we review how expression studies of GA-dependent transcription factors and …