For plants, the sensing of light in the environment is as important as vision is for animals.
Fluctuations in light can be crucial to competition and survival. One way plants sense light is …

▪ Abstract Circadian rhythms are found in most eukaryotes and some prokaryotes. The
mechanism by which organisms maintain these roughly 24-h rhythms in the absence of …

Many plants use day length as an environmental cue to ensure proper timing of the switch
from vegetative to reproductive growth. Day-length sensing involves an interaction between …

Phytochromes confer the photoperiodic control of flowering in rice (Oryza sativa), a short-day
plant. To better understand the molecular mechanisms of day-length recognition, we …

The circadian clock plays a pervasive role in the temporal regulation of plant physiology,
environmental responsiveness, and development. In contrast, the phytohormone auxin plays …

Abstract Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), an outer-membrane component of Gram-negative
bacteria, interacts with LPS-binding protein and CD14, which present LPS to toll-like …

Optimizing the perception of external cues and regulating physiology accordingly help
plants to cope with the constantly changing environmental conditions to which they are …

The second edition of this best-selling handbook is bigger, more comprehensive, and now
completely current. In addition to thorough updates to the discussions featured in the first …

Using monoclonal antibodies specific for each apoprotein and full-length purified apoprotein
standards, the levels of the five Arabidopsis phytochromes and their patterns of expression …

The Arabidopsis early flowering 3 (elf3) mutation causes arrhythmic circadian output in
continuous light, but there is some evidence of clock function in darkness. Here, we show …