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Irradiation with red light causes a phytochrome dependent increase in the extractable amount of acidic gibberellin-like activity in plastid preparations from etiolated leaves of Triticum aestivum L.
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- GA:
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gibberellin
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Cooke, R.J., Saunders, P.F. Phytochrome medicated changes in extractable gibberellin activity in a cell-free system from etiolated wheat leaves. Planta 123, 399–302 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00390709
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