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Etiolated

Etiolated meaning

Of a plant or part of a plant: pale and weak because of sunlight deprivation or excessive exposure to sunlight. | Of a plant: intentionally grown in the dark. | Of an animal or person: having an ashen or pale appearance; also, haggard or thin; physically weak.

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In Angiosperm plants, the last step, conversion of protochlorophyllide to chlorophyll, is light-dependent and such plants are pale ( etiolated ) if grown in the darkness.

This hormone/GM solution can be spread across the surface of Petri dishes sown with germinated and/or etiolated seedlings.