ArticlePlant physiology2014
Phytochrome B Nuclear Bodies Respond to the Low Red to Far-Red Ratio and to the Reduced Irradiance of Canopy Shade in Arabidopsis.
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- Functional conservation and diversity of phytochrome B and its potential applications in crop improvement.Plant communications · 2026Review
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- Twenty-five years of photobodies: formation, composition, and the 2-compartment logic of phytochrome B signaling.Plant physiology · 2026Review
- Promotion of shade avoidance by BBX5 involves activation of PIF4 along with auxin biosynthetic and signaling genes.PLoS genetics · 2026Article
- The Photoreceptors Phototropin 1 and Phytochrome B Mediate Moonlight Perception and Response inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Sensory Perception of Fluctuating Light in Arabidopsis.Plant, cell & environment · 2025Article
- Plant Morphology and a Phytochrome B Model Reveal That the Effects of Far-Red Light on Shade-Avoidance-Like Responses Persist Under High Light Intensity.Plant, cell & environment · 2025Article
- Making the most of canopy light: shade avoidance under a fluctuating spectrum and irradiance.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Review
- H2A.Z removal mediates the activation of genes accounting for cell elongation under light and temperature stress.Plant cell reports · 2024Review
- Supplementary Far-Red Light for Photosynthetic Active Radiation Differentially Influences the Photochemical Efficiency and Biomass Accumulation in Greenhouse-Grown Lettuce.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Integrative phenotyping analyses reveal the relevance of the phyB-PIF4 pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana reproductive organs at high ambient temperature.BMC plant biology · 2024Article
- What is going on inside of phytochrome B photobodies?The Plant cell · 2024Review
- Distinguishing individual photobodies using Oligopaints reveals thermo-sensitive and -insensitive phytochrome B condensation at distinct subnuclear locations.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Photobody formation spatially segregates two opposing phytochrome B signaling actions of PIF5 degradation and stabilization.Nature communications · 2024Article
- The interactive effects between far-red light and temperature on lettuce growth and morphology diminish at high light intensity.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- Isolation of Phytochrome B Photobodies.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024Article
- Characterization of Thermoresponsive Photobody Dynamics.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024Article
- FAR-RED INSENSITIVE 219 and phytochrome B corepress shade avoidance via modulating nuclear speckle formation.Plant physiology · 2023Article
- Phytochrome B photobodies are comprised of phytochrome B and its primary and secondary interacting proteins.Nature communications · 2023Article
- On the contrasting morphological response to far-red at high and low photon fluxes.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
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Abstract
The current consensus is that plant responses to canopy shade involve the perception of low red to far-red ratios (R:FRs) by phytochrome B (phyB), which leads to the direct activation of auxin synthesis genes by PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTORs (PIFs). In addition to its effect on R:FRs, shade also reduces irradiance, but whether shade-induced drops in irradiance affect phyB activity has not been demonstrated. To address this issue, we investigated whether irradiance and R:FRs have similar effects on the nuclear distribution of phyB in petiole cells of light-grown plants. Under high-irradiance white light, phyB formed large nuclear bodies. Lowering irradiance without changing R:FRs or lowering R:FRs by adding far-red light led to the appearance of small nuclear bodies containing phyB. Large nuclear bodies remained but with some concomitant reduction in diameter. The appearance of small nuclear bodies was rapid, stable, and reversible upon the return to high irradiance and high R:FRs. High levels of red light but not of blue light were enough to restrain the formation of small phyB nuclear bodies. Irradiance was effective within the range found in natural canopies and even under relatively low R:FRs. The promotion of leaf hyponasty by lowering irradiance was impaired in phyB and pif mutants, as previously reported for the response to R:FRs. The expression of auxin-related genes showed a similar hierarchy of response to low R:FRs and low irradiance. We propose that phyB is able to perceive not only the low R:FRs, but also the low irradiance of shade.
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