title: Shadow on the Plant: A Strategy to Exit.
abstract: The light spectrum perceived by plants is affected by crowding, which results in the shade avoidance syndrome (SAS). Findings presented by Pedmale et al. bring cryptochromes to the forefront of SAS and elucidate a fascinating molecular crosstalk between photoreceptor systems operating in different wavebands.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: christian.fankhauser@unil.ch.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fankhauser
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Biology, Department of Molecular Plant Physiology and Photobiology, Philipps-Universität, 35043 Marburg, Germany. Electronic address: batschau@staff.uni-marburg.de.
authors.forename: Alfred
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Batschauer
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000378:metabolism*; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D051792:Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D056931:Cryptochromes / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D051792:Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Proteins; D056931:Cryptochromes