Light control of plant development.

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serval:BIB_0FDC53F87B3E
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Review (review): journal as complete as possible of one specific subject, written based on exhaustive analyses from published work.
Collection
Publications
Title
Light control of plant development.
Journal
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology
Author(s)
Fankhauser C., Chory J.
ISSN
1081-0706[print], 1081-0706[linking]
Publication state
Published
Issued date
1997
Volume
13
Pages
203-229
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. ; Review
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
To grow and develop optimally, all organisms need to perceive and process information from both their biotic and abiotic surroundings. A particularly important environmental cue is light, to which organisms respond in many different ways. Because they are photosynthetic and non-motile, plants need to be especially plastic in response to their light environment. The diverse responses of plants to light require sophisticated sensing of its intensity, direction, duration, and wavelength. The action spectra of light responses provided assays to identify three photoreceptor systems absorbing in the red/far-red, blue/near-ultraviolet, and ultraviolet spectral ranges. Following absorption of light, photoreceptors interact with other signal transduction elements, which eventually leads to many molecular and morphological responses. While a complete signal transduction cascade is not known yet, molecular genetic studies using the model plant Arabidopsis have led to substantial progress in dissecting the signal transduction network. Important gains have been made in determining the function of the photoreceptors, the terminal response pathways, and the intervening signal transduction components.
Keywords
Cryptochromes, Drosophila Proteins, Eye Proteins, Flavoproteins/physiology, Light, Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate, Phytochrome/chemistry, Phytochrome/physiology, Plant Proteins/physiology, Plants/growth &amp, development, Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled, Signal Transduction
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Web of science
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