Light receptor action is critical for maintaining plant biomass at warm ambient temperatures

Plant Journal

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 441-452

  Foreman, Julia ^a   Johansson, Henrik ^a   Hornitschek, Patricia ^b   Josse, Eve Marie ^a   Fankhauser, Christian ^b   Halliday, Karen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; bHLH; cryptochrome; HFR1; light signalling; phytochrome

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; BHLH; CRYPTOCHROMES; HFR1; LIGHT SIGNALLING; PHYTOCHROME;

BIOMASS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ECOLOGY;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CRY1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; CRYPTOCHROME; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HFR1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PHYB PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PHYTOCHROME B; PIF4 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PIF5 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BIOMASS; CRYPTOCHROMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LIGHT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYTOCHROME B; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 79251537181     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04434.x     Document Type: Article

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