Light is a crucial environmental cue not only for photosynthetic energy production but also
for plant growth and development. Plants employ sophisticated methods to detect and …

Plants are sessile and photo-autotrophic; their entire life cycle is thus strongly influenced by
the ever-changing light environment. In order to sense and respond to those fluctuating …

Sun-loving plants have the ability to detect and avoid shading through sensing of both blue
and red light wavelengths. Higher plant cryptochromes (CRYs) control how plants modulate …

Tropisms, growth responses to environmental stimuli such as light or gravity, are spectacular
examples of adaptive plant development. The plant hormone auxin serves as a major …

The posttranslational addition of ubiquitin (Ub) helps control the half-life, localization, and
action of many intracellular plant proteins. A primary function is the degradation of …

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The shoot apical meristem of angiosperm plants generates leaf, stem and floral structures
throughout the plant's lifetime. To do this, the plant must maintain a population of stem cells …

Abstract Ethylene (C2H4) is a unique plant-signaling molecule that regulates numerous
developmental processes. The key enzyme in the two-step biosynthetic pathway of ethylene …

It is well accepted that lateral redistribution of the phytohormone auxin underlies the bending
of plant organs towards light. In monocots, photoreception occurs at the shoot tip above the …

Plants constantly survey the surrounding environment using several sets of photoreceptors.
They can sense changes in the quantity (= intensity) and quality (= wavelength) of light and …