ArticlePLoS genetics2016
Bottom-up Assembly of the Phytochrome Network.
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- A comparative study of femtosecond pulsed and continuous wave lasers on physiological responses through activation of phytochromes in seeds.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Phytochrome C and Low Temperature Promote the Protein Accumulation and Red-Light Signaling of Phytochrome D.Plant & cell physiology · 2024Article
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- Application of Multi-Omics Technologies to the Study of Phytochromes in Plants.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Non-stressful temperature changes affect transgenerational phenotypic plasticity across the life cycle of Arabidopsis thaliana plants.Annals of botany · 2023Article
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- Phytochrome F mediates red light responsiveness additively with phytochromes B1 and B2 in tomato.Plant physiology · 2023Article
- The Arabidopsis endosperm is a temperature-sensing tissue that implements seed thermoinhibition through phyB.Nature communications · 2023Article
- WRKY2 and WRKY10 regulate the circadian expression ofPlant communications · 2022Article
- Functional analysis ofFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Quantitative Trait Loci and Candidate Genes Associated with Photoperiod Sensitivity in Lettuce (Lactuca spp.).TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2021Article
- Phytochrome Signaling Networks.Annual review of plant biology · 2021Review
- Differing biophysical properties underpin the unique signaling potentials within the plant phytochrome photoreceptor families.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Heat Stress Factors Expressed during Seed Maturation Differentially Regulate Seed Longevity and Seedling Greening.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Identification of loci controlling adaptation in Chinese soya bean landraces via a combination of conventional and bioclimatic GWAS.Plant biotechnology journal · 2020Article
- Molecular mechanisms underlying phytochrome-controlled morphogenesis in plants.Nature communications · 2019Review
- polyamine uptake transporter 2 (put2) and decaying seeds enhance phyA-mediated germination by overcoming PIF1 repression of germination.PLoS genetics · 2019Article
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Abstract
Plants have developed sophisticated systems to monitor and rapidly acclimate to environmental fluctuations. Light is an essential source of environmental information throughout the plant's life cycle. The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana possesses five phytochromes (phyA-phyE) with important roles in germination, seedling establishment, shade avoidance, and flowering. However, our understanding of the phytochrome signaling network is incomplete, and little is known about the individual roles of phytochromes and how they function cooperatively to mediate light responses. Here, we used a bottom-up approach to study the phytochrome network. We added each of the five phytochromes to a phytochrome-less background to study their individual roles and then added the phytochromes by pairs to study their interactions. By analyzing the 16 resulting genotypes, we revealed unique roles for each phytochrome and identified novel phytochrome interactions that regulate germination and the onset of flowering. Furthermore, we found that ambient temperature has both phytochrome-dependent and -independent effects, suggesting that multiple pathways integrate temperature and light signaling. Surprisingly, none of the phytochromes alone conferred a photoperiodic response. Although phyE and phyB were the strongest repressors of flowering, both phyB and phyC were needed to confer a flowering response to photoperiod. Thus, a specific combination of phytochromes is required to detect changes in photoperiod, whereas single phytochromes are sufficient to respond to light quality, indicating how phytochromes signal different light cues.
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