Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Phytochrome-interacting factors directly suppress MIR156 expression to enhance shade-avoidance syndrome in Arabidopsis

  • Yurong Xie,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Hai Wang,
  • Xiaojing Ma,
  • Baobao Wang,
  • Guangxia Wu,
  • Haiyang Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00404-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Plants employ developmental strategies to avoid shade and compete with neighbors for light. Here, Xie et al. show that phytochrome-interacting factors, which are regulated in a light-dependent manner, directly repress MIR156 genes and promote the expression of SPL genes to enhance shade-avoidance responses.