Volume 22, Issue 16, 21 August 2012, Pages R645–R647
Plant Development: Should I Stop or Should I Grow?
Séverine Lorrain , Christian Fankhauser
Centre for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Available online 20 August 2012.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.054
Summary
Plant growth is tightly controlled through the integration of environmental cues with the physiological status of the seedling. A recent study now proposes a model explaining how the plant hormone ethylene triggers opposite growth responses depending on the light environment.