Dracula plants

The shade avoidance syndrome (SAS) allows plants to anticipate and avoid shading by neighbouring plants by initiating an elongation growth response.
In a new research article, pubblished on the Journal od Experimental Botany, authors were able to create a mutant that don't avoid shade: Scientists at Royal Holloway, University of London and The Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Barcelona have been studying the effects of this shade avoidance and are hoping to eventually impede this response to increase planting density.
Mutants not showing SAS syndrome were called dracula1

To read the article clik here Journal of Experimental Botany