References & Sources - January 9, 1999

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Young plants prepare to see the light

Researchers describe unexpected biochemical steps that allow seedlings to burst out of the ground without any ray-catching chlorophyll but still start using light.

References:

Reinbothe, C., N. Lebedev, and S. Reinbothe. 1999. A protochlorophyllide light-harvesting complex involved in de-etiolation of higher plants. Nature 397(Jan. 7):80.

Willows, R. 1999. Making light of a dark situation. Nature 397(Jan. 7):27.

Sources:

Timothy W. McNellis
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
111 Koshland Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720

Steffen Reinbothe
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Universitätsstr. 150
44780 Bochum
Germany

Robert Willows
Macquarie University
School of Biological Sciences
Macquarie Drive
North Ryde 2109, Sydney
Australia

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 2, January 9, 1999, p. 23. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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