Shedding light on ethylene metabolism in higher plants
Front Plant Sci. 2014 Dec 1;5:665. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00665. eCollection 2014. ABSTRACT Ethylene metabolism in higher plants is regulated by a wide array of endogenous and...
Functional characterisation of the chromatically antagonistic photosensitive mechanism of erythrophores in the tilapia Oreochromis niloticus
J Exp Biol. 2015 Mar;218(Pt 5):748-56. doi: 10.1242/jeb.106831. Epub 2015 Jan 8. ABSTRACT Non-visual photoreceptors with diverse photopigments allow organisms to adapt to changing light...
DNA damage and repair in plants under ultraviolet and ionizing radiations
ScientificWorldJournal. 2015;2015:250158. doi: 10.1155/2015/250158. Epub 2015 Feb 2. ABSTRACT Being sessile, plants are continuously exposed to DNA-damaging agents present in the environment such as ultraviolet...
Red:far-red light conditions affect the emission of volatile organic compounds from barley (Hordeum vulgare), leading to altered biomass allocation in neighbouring plants
Ann Bot. 2015 May;115(6):961-70. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcv036. Epub 2015 Apr 7. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) play various roles in plant-plant interactions, and...
Lipid signalling in plant responses to abiotic stress
Plant Cell Environ. 2016 May;39(5):1029-48. doi: 10.1111/pce.12666. Epub 2016 Feb 12. ABSTRACT Lipids are one of the major components of biological membranes including the plasma...
Tissue-specific regulation of flowering by photoreceptors
Cell Mol Life Sci. 2016 Feb;73(4):829-39. doi: 10.1007/s00018-015-2095-8. Epub 2015 Nov 30. ABSTRACT Plants use various kinds of environmental signals to adjust the timing of...
Two Cyanobacterial Photoreceptors Regulate Photosynthetic Light Harvesting by Sensing Teal, Green, Yellow, and Red Light
mBio. 2016 Feb 9;7(1):e02130-15. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02130-15. ABSTRACT The genomes of many photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic bacteria encode numerous phytochrome superfamily photoreceptors whose functions and interactions are...
Assessing Protein Stability Under Different Light and Circadian Conditions
Methods Mol Biol. 2016;1398:141-52. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3356-3_13. ABSTRACT Plants use light as an indicator of time and space as well as the major energy source for...
SPA proteins: SPAnning the gap between visible light and gene expression
Planta. 2016 Aug;244(2):297-312. doi: 10.1007/s00425-016-2509-3. Epub 2016 Apr 21. ABSTRACT In this review we focus on the role of SPA proteins in light signalling and...
The potential of Nigerian bioactive plants for controlling gastrointestinal nematode infection in livestock
Anim Health Res Rev. 2016 Dec;17(2):85-91. doi: 10.1017/S1466252316000049. Epub 2016 Jun 1. ABSTRACT Bioactive compounds from marine and terrestrial organisms have been used extensively in...
Photoreceptors mapping from past history till date
J Photochem Photobiol B. 2016 Sep;162:223-231. doi: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2016.06.020. Epub 2016 Jun 16. ABSTRACT The critical source of information in plants is light, which is perceived...
Different Narrow-Band Light Ranges Alter Plant Secondary Metabolism and Plant Defense Response to Aphids
J Chem Ecol. 2016 Oct;42(10):989-1003. doi: 10.1007/s10886-016-0755-2. Epub 2016 Sep 2. ABSTRACT Light of different wavelengths affects various physiological processes in plants. Short-wavelength radiation (like...
Light behind the curtain: photoregulation of nuclear architecture and chromatin dynamics in plants
New Phytol. 2016 Dec;212(4):908-919. doi: 10.1111/nph.14269. Epub 2016 Nov 4. ABSTRACT Light is a powerful stimulus regulating many aspects of plant development and phenotypic plasticity....
The effect of light and temperature of the CO2 exchange of different life forms in the ground vegetation of a montane beech forest
Oecologia. 1972 Sep;9(3):235-258. doi: 10.1007/BF00345234. ABSTRACT In a montane beech (Fagus sylvatica) forest the influence of the climatic factors, light and temperature, on net photosynthesis...
Photoreceptor-dependent regulation of photoprotection
Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2017 Jun;37:102-108. doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2017.03.016. Epub 2017 May 1. ABSTRACT In photosynthetic organisms, proteins in the light-harvesting complex (LHC) harvest light energy...