{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Gautrat P"],"funding":["European Molecular Biology Organization","European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)","Dutch Research Council (NWO)","EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme","EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020)"],"pagination":["8489"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11445486"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["15(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Plants growing at high densities can detect competitors through changes in the composition of light reflected by neighbours. In response to this far-red-enriched light, plants elicit adaptive shade avoidance responses for light capture, but these need to be balanced against other input signals, such as nutrient availability. Here, we investigated how Arabidopsis integrates shade and nitrate signalling. We unveiled that nitrate modulates shade avoidance via a previously unknown shade response pathway that involves root-derived trans-zeatin (tZ) signal and the BEE1 transcription factor as an integrator of light and cytokinin signalling. Under nitrate-sufficient conditions, tZ promotes hypocotyl elongation specifically in the presence of supplemental far-red light. This occurs via PIF transcr"],"journal":["Nature communications"],"pubmed_title":["Phytochrome-dependent responsiveness to root-derived cytokinins enables coordinated elongation responses to combined light and nitrate cues."],"pmcid":["PMC11445486"],"funding_grant_id":["101026742","ALTF 828-2020","Vici 865.17.002"],"pubmed_authors":["Gautrat P","Lammers M","Pierik R","Matton SEA","Buti S","Romanowski A","Buijs G"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Phytochrome-dependent responsiveness to root-derived cytokinins enables coordinated elongation responses to combined light and nitrate cues.","description":"Plants growing at high densities can detect competitors through changes in the composition of light reflected by neighbours. In response to this far-red-enriched light, plants elicit adaptive shade avoidance responses for light capture, but these need to be balanced against other input signals, such as nutrient availability. Here, we investigated how Arabidopsis integrates shade and nitrate signalling. We unveiled that nitrate modulates shade avoidance via a previously unknown shade response pathway that involves root-derived trans-zeatin (tZ) signal and the BEE1 transcription factor as an integrator of light and cytokinin signalling. Under nitrate-sufficient conditions, tZ promotes hypocotyl elongation specifically in the presence of supplemental far-red light. This occurs via PIF transcr","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Oct","modification":"2026-07-15T04:18:37.376Z","creation":"2025-04-04T00:35:01.691Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11445486","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39353942"],"doi":["10.1038/s41467-024-52828-y"]}}