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Sulfation switch in the shade

Plants adjust the balance between growth and defence using photoreceptors and jasmonates. Levels of active jasmonates are reduced in a phytochrome B-dependent manner by upregulation of a 12-hydroxyjasmonate sulfotransferase, leading to increase in shade avoidance and decrease in defence.

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Fig. 1: The role of ST2a in the JA homeostasis network.

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Wasternack, C. Sulfation switch in the shade. Nat. Plants 6, 186–187 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0620-8

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