Plants use light as energy source as well as signals for environmental signal changes. Under the canopy shade phtosynthesis activity is reduced, therefore plants responded to existance of neighboring plants that causes near future crisis, such as growing taller and flowering earlier to produce seeds as early as possible, which are collectivcey known as shade avoidance responses. This week I published my paper titled “Network analysis reveals a role for salicylic acid pathway components in shade avoidance” in Plant Physiology, an international journal in plant biology. I used extensively over-representaiton analysis methods I presented in this blog, revealing a novel connection between a plant defense hormoen (salisylic acid) and shade avoidances. Please take a look at a link to R/bioconductor scripts in a Github repsitory in that paper to increase reproducibility my studies as I mentioned in this blog.