Shade tolerance is an ecological concept used in a wide range of disciplines, from plant
physiology to landsca** or gardening. It refers to the strategy of some plants to persist and …

Plants are sessile and photo-autotrophic; their entire life cycle is thus strongly influenced by
the ever-changing light environment. In order to sense and respond to those fluctuating …

The presence of neighboring vegetation modifies the light environment experienced by
plants, generating signals that are perceived by phytochromes and cryptochromes. These …

The threat to plant survival presented by light limitation has driven the evolution of highly
plastic adaptive strategies to either tolerate or avoid shading by neighbouring vegetation …

In recent years, the concept of shade avoidance has provided a functional meaning to the
role of the phytochrome photoreceptor family in mature plants in their natural environment …

Background and Aims The ability to detect and respond to the impending threat of shade
can confer significant selective advantage to plants growing in natural communities. This …

▪ Abstract To grow and develop optimally, all organisms need to perceive and process
information from both their biotic and abiotic surroundings. A particularly important …

Gene and genome duplications underlie the origins of evolutionary novelty in plants.
Soybean, Glycine max, is considered to be a paleopolyploid species with a complex …

To grow and develop optimally, all organisms need to perceive and process information
from both their biotic and abiotic surroundings. A particularly important environmental cue is …

▪ Abstract The timing of the transition from vegetative to reproductive development is of great
fundamental and applied interest but is still poorly understood. Recently, molecular-genetic …