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Photomorphogenic mutants of higher plants

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Photomorphogenesis in Plants

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The regulation of plant development by light is mediated by several different photoreceptors. After photoperception, a transduction chain relays the signal to the terminal response(s). The complexity of photomorphogenesis is due to the different photoreceptors and the multiple steps of the transduction chain(s), which may involve such aspects as changes in gene expression, interaction with plant hormones, membrane changes etc., which remain largely unknown. The components of these transduction chains can either be different or similar. A further complication arises because of the co-action of several photoreceptive systems regulating the same process (Chapter 6) or because of the multiple effects induced by a single photoreceptor.

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  1. Department of Genetics, Wageningen Agricultural University, Dreijenlaan 2, NL-6703, HA Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Maarten Koornneef

  2. Department of Plant Physiology, Wageningen Agricultural University, Dreijenlaan 2, NL-6703, HA Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Richard E. Kendrick

  3. Laboratory for Photoperception and Signal Transduction, Frontier Research Program, Institute for Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Hirosawa 2-1, Wako City, Saitama, 351-01, Japan

    Richard E. Kendrick

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Koornneef, M., Kendrick, R.E. (1994). Photomorphogenic mutants of higher plants. In: Kendrick, R.E., Kronenberg, G.H.M. (eds) Photomorphogenesis in Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1884-2_21

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