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Inhibition of TOR Represses Nutrient Consumption, Which Improves Greening after Extended Periods of Etiolation.
Plant physiology - 1 Sept 2018
Zhang Yi, Zhang Youjun, McFarlane Heather E, Obata Toshihiro, Richter Andreas S, Lohse Mark, Grimm Bernhard, Persson Staffan, Fernie Alisdair R, Giavalisco Patrick
Abstract excerpt
Upon illumination, etiolated seedlings experience a transition from heterotrophic to photoautotrophic growth. During this process, the tetrapyrrole biosynthesis pathway provides chlorophyll for photosynthesis. This pathway has to be tightly controlled to prevent the accumulation of photoreactive metabolites and to provide stoichiometric amounts of chlorophyll for its incorporation into photosynthetic protein...
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