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Fig. 1

Abbreviations

cry :

Cryptochrome

phot :

Phototropin

phy :

Phytochrome

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Acknowledgements

We thank Birte Dohle for preparing the figure, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for the support of our research (grants BA985/7-1 and BA985/10-1 to A.B.) and a fellowship of the Graduiertenkolleg ‘Protein function at the atomic level’ (to R.B.)

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Banerjee, R., Batschauer, A. Plant blue-light receptors. Planta 220, 498–502 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-004-1418-z

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