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Pedmale UV, Huang SS, Zander M, Cole BJ, Hetzel J, Ljung K, Reis PA, Sridevi P, Nito K, Nery JR, Ecker JR, Chory J
Cell 164 (1-2) 233-245 [2016-01-14; online 2016-01-05]
Sun-loving plants have the ability to detect and avoid shading through sensing of both blue and red light wavelengths. Higher plant cryptochromes (CRYs) control how plants modulate growth in response to changes in blue light. For growth under a canopy, where blue light is diminished, CRY1 and CRY2 perceive this change and respond by directly contacting two bHLH transcription factors, PIF4 and PIF5. These factors are also known to be controlled by phytochromes, the red/far-red photoreceptors; however, transcriptome analyses indicate that the gene regulatory programs induced by the different light wavelengths are distinct. Our results indicate that CRYs signal by modulating PIF activity genome wide and that these factors integrate binding of different plant photoreceptors to facilitate growth changes under different light conditions.
Swedish Metabolomics Centre (SMC) [Service]
PubMed 26724867
DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.018
Crossref 10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.018
pii: S0092-8674(15)01642-6
pmc: PMC4721562
mid: NIHMS744236