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Calcium and calcium receptor CAS promote Arabidopsis thaliana de-etiolation.
Physiologia plantarum - 1 Jan 2012
Huang Shan-Shan, Chen Juan, Dong Xue-Jun, Patton Janet, Pei Zhen-Ming, Zheng Hai-Lei
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As a second messenger, the free cytosolic calcium ion (Ca(2+)) plays important roles in many biochemical and physiological processes including photosynthesis in plants. In this study, we investigated morphological changes, chlorophyll accumulation and chloroplast development during early photomorphogenesis in etiolated seedlings of both Arabidopsis thaliana wild type (WT) and those with the antisense of CAS, a...
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