etiolation
Sign in to saveAlso known as skotomorphogenesis, de-etiolation, chlorosis, etioplast, greening, etiolated
thumb|300px|Spanish bluebells Hyacinthoides hispanica, showing both leaves and flowers in both etiolated and non-etiolated states. The longest etiolated leaves are about 50 cm long.
Research
3,429 papers- Editing of rice PSEUDO-ETIOLATION IN LIGHT microProtein genes promotes chloroplast development.The Plant cell · 2025
- Beyond the darkness: recent lessons from etiolation and de-etiolation studies.Journal of experimental botany · 2020
- Etiolation promotes protoplast transfection and genome editing efficiency.Physiologia plantarum · 2024
- PSEUDO-ETIOLATION IN LIGHT proteins reduce greening by binding GLK transcription factors.Plant physiology · 2024
- De-etiolation-induced protein 1 (DEIP1) mediates assembly of the cytochrome b(6)f complex in Arabidopsis.Nature communications · 2022
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Effects
- Causes
- De-etiolation
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thumb|300px|Spanish bluebells Hyacinthoides hispanica, showing both leaves and flowers in both etiolated and non-etiolated states. The longest etiolated leaves are about 50 cm long.
In botany, etiolation is a characteristic of flowering plants (angiosperms) grown in partial or complete absence of light. It is characterized by long, weak stems; smaller leaves due to longer internodes; and a pale yellow color (chlorosis). The development of seedlings in the dark ("") leads to etiolated seedlings.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “etiolation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.