title: Light-mediated seed germination: connecting phytochrome B to gibberellic acid.
abstract: In this issue of Developmental Cell, Cho et al. (2012) uncover the mechanisms linking the light-regulated trigger and hormone-mediated induction of seed germination in Arabidopsis. When phytochrome B is activated by red light, seed germination is promoted by epigenetic transcriptional activation of gibberellic acid biosynthetic enzymes via histone demethylation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99163, USA. mmneff@wsu.edu
authors.forename: Michael M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Neff