Here Comes the Sun: Cellular Sensor Helps Plants Find Light (IMAGE)

Salk Institute

Here Comes the Sun: Cellular Sensor Helps Plants Find Light

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Plants have a number of receptors that help them avoid shade and outgrow nearby plants. One cellular receptor, CRY2 (yellow) in the nucleus is activating growth-related genes amidst energy-generating chloroplasts (blue).

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