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Plant Photoreceptors

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Möglich, A., Yang, X., Ayers, R. A., and Moffat, K. (2010) Structure and function of plant photoreceptors. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 61: 21–47.

Pudasaini, A., and Zoltowski, B. D. (2013) Zeitlupe senses blue-light fluence to mediate circadian timing in Arabidopsis thaliana. Biochemistry 52: 7150−7158.

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Swartz, T. E., Corchnoy, S. B., Christie, J. M., Lewis, J. W., Szundi, I., Briggs, W. R., and Bogomolni, R. (2001) The photocycle of a flavin-binding domain of the blue light photoreceptor phototropin. J. Biol. Chem. 276: 36493–36500.

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Phytochromes

Burgie, E. S., Bussell, A. N., Walker, J. M., Dubiel, K., and Vierstra, R. D. (2014) Crystal structure of the photosensing module from a red/far-red light-absorbing plant phytochrome. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111: 10179–10184.

Montgomery, B. L., and Lagarias, J. C. (2002) Phytochrome ancestry: Sensors of bilins and light. Trends Plant Sci. 7: 357–366.

Ulijasz, A. T., Cornilescu, G., Cornilescu, C. C., Zhang, J., Rivera, M., Markley, J. L., and Vierstra, R. D. (2010) Structural basis for the photoconversion of a phytochrome to the activated Pfr form. Nature 463: 250–254.

Yamaguchi, R., Nakamura, M., Mochizuki, N., Kay, S. A., and Nagatani, A. (1999) Light-dependent translocation of a phytochrome B-GFP fusion protein to the nucleus in transgenic Arabidopsis. J. Cell Biol. 145: 437–445.

Phytochrome Responses

Briggs, W. R., Mandoli, D. F., Shinkle, J. R., Kaufman, L. S., Watson, J. C., and Thompson, W. F. (1984) Phytochrome regulation of plant development at the whole plant, physiological, and molecular levels. In Sensory Perception and Transduction in Aneural Organisms, G. Colombetti, F. Lenci, and P.-S. Song, eds., Plenum, New York, pp. 265–280.

Phytochrome Signaling Pathways

Leivar, P., and Monte, E. (2014) PIFs: Systems integrators in plant development. Plant Cell 26: 56–78.

Takala, H., Björling, A., Berntsson, O., Lehtivuori, H., Niebling, S., Hoernke, M., Kosheleva, I., Henning, R., Menzel, A., Ihalainen, J. A. et al. (2014) Signal amplification and transduction in phytochrome photosensors. Nature 509: 245–249.

Blue Light Responses

Ahmad, M., Jarillo, J. A., Smirnova, O., and Cashmore, A. R. (1998) Cryptochrome blue light photoreceptors of Arabidopsis implicated in phototropism. Nature 392: 720–723.

Chen, C., Xiao, Y.-G., Li, X., and Ni, M. (2012) Light-regulated stomatal aperture in Arabidopsis. Mol. Plant 5: 566–572.

Christie, J. M. (2007) Phototropin blue-light receptors. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 58: 21–45.

Christie, J., and Murphy, A. (2013) Shoot phototropism in higher plants: New light through old concepts. Am J. Bot. 100: 35–46.

Huang, Y., Baxter, R., Smith, B. S., Partch, C. L., Colbert, C. L., and Deisenhofer, J. (2006) Crystal structure of cryptochrome 3 from Arabidopsis thaliana and its implications for photolyase activity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103: 17701–17706.

Inoue, S.-I., Takemiya, A., and Shimazaki, K.-I. (2010) Phototropin signaling and stomatal opening as a model case. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 13: 587–593.

Kong, S.-G., Suetsugu, N., Kikuchi, S., Nakai, M., Nagatani, A., and Wada, M. (2013) Both phototropin 1 and 2 localize on the chloroplast outer membrane with distinct localization activity. Plant Cell Physiol. 54: 80–92.

Lindeboom, J. J., Nakamura, M., Hibbel, A., Shundyak, K., Gutierrez, R., Ketelaar, T., Emons, A. M., Mulder, B. M., Kirik, V., and Ehrhardt, D. W. (2013) A mechanism for reorientation of cortical microtubule arrays driven by microtubule severing. Science 342: 1245533.

Liscum, E., Askinosie, S. K., Leuchtman, D. L., Morrow, J., Willenburg, K. T., and Coats, D. R. (2014) Phototropism: Growing towards an understanding of plant movement. Plant Cell 26: 38–55.

Losi, A., and Gärtner, W. (2012) The evolution of flavin-binding photoreceptors: An ancient chromophore serving trendy blue-light sensors. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 63: 49–72.

Preuten, T., Hohm, T., Bergmann, S., and Fankhauser, C. (2013) Defining the site of light perception and initiation of phototropism in Arabidopsis. Curr. Biol. 23: 1934–1938.

Shimazaki, K.-I., and Tokutomi, S. (2013) Diverse responses to blue light via LOV photoreceptors. Plant Cell Physiol. 54: 1–4.

Solov’yov, I. A., Domratcheva, T., and Schulten, K. (2014) Separation of photo-induced radical pair in cryptochrome to a functionally critical distance. Sci. Rep. 4: 3845.

Suetsugu, N., and Wada, M. (2013) Evolution of three LOV blue light receptor families in green plants and photosynthetic stramenopiles: Phototropin, ZTL/FKF1/LKP2 and aureochrome. Plant Cell Physiol. 54: 8–23.

Wada, M. (2013) Chloroplast movement. Plant Sci. 210: 177–182.

Responses to Ultraviolet Radiation

Jenkins, G. I. (2014) The UV-B photoreceptor UVR8: From structure to physiology. Plant Cell 26: 21–37.

Web Topics

Haupt, W. (1982) Light-mediated movement of chloroplasts. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. 33: 205–233.

Kim, H. Y., Cote, G. G., and Crain, R. C. (1993) Potassium channels in Samanea-Saman protoplasts controlled by phytochrome and the biological clock. Science 260: 960–962.

Kraml, M. (1994) Light direction and polarization. In Photomorphogenesis in Plants, 2nd ed., R. E. Kendrick and G. H. M. Kronenberg, eds., Kluwer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 417–445.

Lee, Y., and Satter, R. L. (1988) Effects of temperature on proton uptake and release during circadian rhythmic movements of excised Samanea motor organs. Plant Physiol. 86: 352–354.

Lee, Y., and Satter, R. L. (1989) Effects of white, blue, red light and darkness on pH of the apoplast in the Samanea pulvinus. Planta 178: 31–40.

Wagner, G. (1996) Intracellular movement. Prog. Bot. 57: 68–80.

Winands, A., and Wagner, G. (1996) Phytochrome of the green alga Mougeotia: cDNA sequence, autoregulation and phylogenetic position. Plant Mol. Biol. 32: 589–597.