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Science 5 May 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5467, pp. 821 - 822
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5467.821
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PLANT BIOLOGY:
Lighting Up the Nucleus

Akira Nagatani

Many physiological processes in plants from flowering to seed germination are regulated by light. Plants have photoreceptors called phytochromes that detect changes in light and switch on the expression of light-regulated genes. As Akira Nagatani describes in a Perspective, new findings (Martinez-Garcia et al.) now reveal the intermediate steps between light activation of phytochromes and transcription of light-responsive genes.

The author is in the Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan. E-mail: nagatani{at}physiol.bot.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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