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Environmental Light Signals and the Development of Arabidopsis

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Despite their apparent diversity, seed plants all exhibit the same body plan. The vegetative body is composed of three organs: leaf, stem and root. The primary function of the leaf is photosynthesis, that of the stem is support, and that of the root is anchorage and absorption of water and minerals. Because plants cannot move, to maintain their supply of water and inorganic elements and to reach the optimal light exposure for the photosynthetic activity, they must grow continuously. Therefore plants during their life cycle expand the surfaces involved in the uptake and capture of sunlight and nutrients through the elongation and branching of stems, the expans ion of leaves, and the formation of a branching root system that is elaborated with root hairs.

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  1. Giorgio Morelli
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  1. MPI für Molekulare Genetik, Ihnestraße 73, D-14195, Berlin, Germany

    Vincenzo E. A. Russo

  2. Leeds Institute of Plant Biochemistry and Agriculture, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS29JT, Great Britain

    David J. Cove

  3. Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, 80302, CO, USA

    Lois G. Edgar

  4. Whitehead Institute, Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge, 02141, MA, USA

    Rudolf Jaenisch

  5. MPI für Züchtungsforschung, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, Köln, D-50829, Germany

    Francesco Salamini

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Morelli, G., Ruberti, I. (1999). Environmental Light Signals and the Development of Arabidopsis . In: Russo, V.E.A., Cove, D.J., Edgar, L.G., Jaenisch, R., Salamini, F. (eds) Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59828-9_13

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