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When the Lights Went On for COP
A protein's role in ubiquitin-mediated proteasomal degradation plants the seed for big ideas
The Scientist 2004, 18(3):28
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It doesn't take a green thumb to predict what happens to plants left in the dark: They wither. But in the late 1980s and early 1990s, researchers, including people in Xing-Wang Deng's Yale University lab, stumbled upon a group of intriguing Arabidopsis mutants that seemed to defy intuition. If provided the right nutrition, these plants could retain a shape, form, and cellular state similar to those grown in ample light for weeks, and even months, of sustained darkness. Some could even flower.
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