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Genetic engineering of harvest index in tobacco through overexpression of a phytochrome gene.
Nature biotechnology - 1 Aug 1996
Robson P R, McCormac A C, Irvine A S, Smith H
Abstract excerpt
The phytochrome photoreceptor family regulates plant architecture in response to environmental light signals. Phytochromes mediate the shade avoidance syndrome, in which plants react to far-red radiation reflected from neighbors by elongation growth, occurring at the expense of leaf and storage organ production. We show that transgenic overproduction of phytochrome A in tobacco suppresses shade avoidance, causing...
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