ReviewThe Plant cell2024
What is going on inside of phytochrome B photobodies?
Review in The Plant cell, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- A review of ARGOS-mediated regulation of plant organ size: molecular mechanisms, environmental interactions, and agricultural implications.Functional & integrative genomics · 2026Review
- Functional conservation and diversity of phytochrome B and its potential applications in crop improvement.Plant communications · 2026Review
- Twenty-five years of photobodies: formation, composition, and the 2-compartment logic of phytochrome B signaling.Plant physiology · 2026Review
- Proximity proteomics reveals the molecular architecture of phytochrome B photobodies inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Light-regulated dual-targeting of NUCLEAR CONTROL OF PEP ACTIVITY establishes photomorphogenesis via interorganellar communication.Plant physiology · 2025Article
- A PPR Protein RFCD1 Affects Chloroplast Gene Expression and Chloroplast Development inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Shedding light on iron nutrition: exploring intersections of transcription factor cascades in light and iron deficiency signaling.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Review
- Seeing red: Light and temperature-dependent complex formation reveal new insights into phytochrome activity.The Plant cell · 2024Article
- PIF transcription factors-versatile plant epigenome landscapers.Frontiers in epigenetics and epigenomics · 2024Review
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Abstract
Plants exhibit an enormous phenotypic plasticity to adjust to changing environmental conditions. For this purpose, they have evolved mechanisms to detect and measure biotic and abiotic factors in their surroundings. Phytochrome B exhibits a dual function, since it serves as a photoreceptor for red and far-red light as well as a thermosensor. In 1999, it was first reported that phytochromes not only translocate into the nucleus but also form subnuclear foci upon irradiation by red light. It took more than 10 years until these phytochrome speckles received their name; these foci were coined photobodies to describe unique phytochrome-containing subnuclear domains that are regulated by light. Since their initial discovery, there has been much speculation about the significance and function of photobodies. Their presumed roles range from pure experimental artifacts to waste deposits or signaling hubs. In this review, we summarize the newest findings about the meaning of phyB photobodies for light and temperature signaling. Recent studies have established that phyB photobodies are formed by liquid-liquid phase separation via multivalent interactions and that they provide diverse functions as biochemical hotspots to regulate gene expression on multiple levels.
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