Light is important for plants as an energy source and a developmental signal, but it can also
cause stress to plants and modulates responses to stress. Excess and fluctuating light result …

Cryptochromes are blue-light receptors that mediate photoresponses in plants. The
genomes of most land plants encode two clades of cryptochromes, CRY1 and CRY2, which …

Plants must constantly adapt to a changing light environment in order to optimize energy
conversion through the process of photosynthesis and to limit photodamage. In addition …

Highlights•The COP1/SPA E3 ubiquitin ligase is a repressor of photomorphogenesis.•The
COP1/SPA complex targets photomorphogenesis-promoting factors for proteolysis.•Active …

Circadian clocks are endogenous timekeeping networks that allow organisms to align their
physiology with their changing environment and to perform biological processes at the most …

Circadian clocks integrate environmental signals with internal cues to coordinate diverse
physiological outputs so that they occur at the most appropriate season or time of day …

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) originates from the Andes and evolved short-day-dependent
tuber formation as a vegetative propagation strategy. Here we describe the identification of a …

Plants depend on the surrounding light environment to direct their growth. Blue light (300–
500 nm) in particular acts to promote a wide variety of photomorphogenic responses …

Light perception is indispensable for plants to respond adequately to external cues and is
linked to proteolysis of key transcriptional regulators. To provide synthetic light control of …

In the mammalian circadian clockwork, CRY1 and CRY2 repressor proteins are regulated by
posttranslational modifications for temporally coordinated transcription of clock genes …