Molecular mechanisms underlying phytochrome-controlled morphogenesis in plants

M Legris, YÇ Ince, C Fankhauser - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Phytochromes are bilin-binding photosensory receptors which control development over a
broad range of environmental conditions and throughout the whole plant life cycle. Light …

Rethinking the marine carbon cycle: factoring in the multifarious lifestyles of microbes

AZ Worden, MJ Follows, SJ Giovannoni, S Wilken… - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Marine ecosystems are composed of a diverse array of life forms, the
majority of which are unicellular—archaea, bacteria, and eukaryotes. The power of these …

Plant responses to red and far-red lights, applications in horticulture

S Demotes-Mainard, T Péron, A Corot… - Environmental and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Light drives plant growth and development, so its control is increasingly used as an
environment-friendly tool to manage horticultural crops. However, this implies a …

Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology

D Faktorová, RER Nisbet, JA Fernández Robledo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Diverse microbial ecosystems underpin life in the sea. Among these microbes are many
unicellular eukaryotes that span the diversity of the eukaryotic tree of life. However, genetic …

Probing the evolution, ecology and physiology of marine protists using transcriptomics

DA Caron, H Alexander, AE Allen… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Protists, which are single-celled eukaryotes, critically influence the ecology and chemistry of
marine ecosystems, but genome-based studies of these organisms have lagged behind …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of photoperiod and light intensity on the growth and photosynthesis of Dunaliella salina (chlorophyta) CCAP 19/30

Y Xu, IM Ibrahim, PJ Harvey - Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
The green microalga Dunaliella salina survives in a wide range of salinities via mechanisms
involving glycerol synthesis and degradation and is exploited for large amounts of …

Phytochrome diversity in green plants and the origin of canonical plant phytochromes

FW Li, M Melkonian, CJ Rothfels, JC Villarreal… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Phytochromes are red/far-red photoreceptors that play essential roles in diverse plant
morphogenetic and physiological responses to light. Despite their functional significance …

Phytochrome evolution in 3D: deletion, duplication, and diversification

NC Rockwell, JC Lagarias - New Phytologist, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Canonical plant phytochromes are master regulators of photomorphogenesis and the shade
avoidance response. They are also part of a widespread superfamily of photoreceptors with …

The red edge: bilin-binding photoreceptors as optogenetic tools and fluorescence reporters

K Tang, HM Beyer, MD Zurbriggen… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
This review adds the bilin-binding phytochromes to the Chemical Reviews thematic issue
“Optogenetics and Photopharmacology”. The work is structured into two parts. We first …

Origin and evolution of core components responsible for monitoring light environment changes during plant terrestrialization

X Han, X Chang, Z Zhang, H Chen, H He, B Zhong… - Molecular Plant, 2019 - cell.com
Light serves as the source of energy as well as an information signal for photosynthetic
plants. During evolution, plants have acquired the ability to monitor environmental light …