Shade Avoidance

• Published in: The New phytologist Vol. 179; no. 4; pp. 930 - 944
• Main Author: Franklin, Keara A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing 01.09.2008; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: abiotic stress; Adaptation, Physiological; Arabidopsis - growth & development; Arabidopsis - metabolism; Arabidopsis - radiation effects; Arabidopsis Proteins - metabolism; Arabidopsis Proteins - physiology; DELLA; Developmental biology; Ethylenes - metabolism; evolution; Flowering; Gene expression regulation; Genes; Gibberellins; Hypocotyls; Indoleacetic Acids - metabolism; Light; light quality; Models, Biological; monitoring; Phenotypes; Photoreceptors; Photosynthesis; Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins - physiology; phytochrome; PIF (PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR); Plant growth regulators; Plant Growth Regulators - metabolism; Plant Growth Regulators - physiology; Plants; red to far‐red ratio (R : FR); shade; shade avoidance; Signal Transduction - radiation effects; stress response; Tansley Reviews; Temperature; transcription factors; vegetation; wavelengths

The threat to plant survival presented by light limitation has driven the evolution of highly plastic adaptive strategies to either tolerate or avoid shading by neighbouring vegetation. When subject to vegetational shading, plants are exposed to a variety of informational signals, which include alte...