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ReviewTrends in cell biology2011

Phytochrome signaling mechanisms and the control of plant development.

Meng Chen, Joanne Chory

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Review in Trends in cell biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 210 papers.

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210citing papers in PubMed
36.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

210 citing papers in PubMed, 431 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Sensing a rainbow of colors: algal photoreceptors.Frontiers in plant science · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Meng ChenDepartment of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. chen.meng@duke.edu
Joanne Chory
Duke University · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

Genetic Characterization of Phytochrome Nuclear Bodies in Plant Light SignalingR01GM087388 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI CHEN, MENG · 2010 to 2023
$5.8M
INITIAL EVENTS IN PHOTORECEPTOR SIGNALINGR01GM052413 · NIGMS · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI CHORY, JOANNE · 1995 to 2016
$5.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM52413NIGMS NIH HHS GM87388NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM052413NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM087388
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As they emerge from the ground, seedlings adopt a photosynthetic lifestyle, which is accompanied by dramatic changes in morphology and global alterations in gene expression that optimizes the plant body plan for light capture. Phytochromes are red and far-red photoreceptors that play a major role during photomorphogenesis, a complex developmental program that seedlings initiate when they first encounter light. The earliest phytochrome signaling events after excitation by red light include their rapid translocation from the cytoplasm to subnuclear bodies (photobodies) that contain other proteins involved in photomorphogenesis, including a number of transcription factors and E3 ligases. In the light, phytochromes and negatively acting transcriptional regulators that interact directly with phytochromes are destabilized, whereas positively acting transcriptional regulators are stabilized. Here, we discuss recent advances in our knowledge of the mechanisms linking phytochrome photoactivation in the cytoplasm and transcriptional regulation in the nucleus.

Indexed as

Plant DevelopmentSignal TransductionCell NucleusCullin ProteinsDown-RegulationLightMorphogenesisPhytochrome APhytochrome BPlant ProteinsPlantsProtein TransportSeedlingsCullin ProteinsPhytochrome APhytochrome BPlant Proteins

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PMID21852137
PMCPMC3205231
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