Seeing the world in red and blue: insight into plant vision and photoreceptors.
Plants see light through multiple photoreceptors, including phytochromes and cryptochromes. Cryptochromes are flavoproteins that participate in many blue-light responses, including phototropism in plants and entrainment of circadian rhythms in plants and animals. A novel flavoprotein, NPH1, is also implicated in plant phototropism. Phytochromes function as serine/threonine kinases whose potential interacting partners include cryptochrome (CRY1 and CRY2).
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LPDP Universite Paris VI, UMR CNRS 7632, Tour 53 E5 Casier 156, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252, Paris, Cedex 05, France. margaretahmad@hotmail.com
D000818:Animals; D056931:Cryptochromes; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D005136:Eye Proteins; D005420:Flavoproteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D005810:Multigene Family; D017956:Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate; D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D018524:Phototropism; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D043562:Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled; D013379:Substrate Specificity
D056931:Cryptochromes; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D005136:Eye Proteins; D005420:Flavoproteins; D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins; D043562:Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled; C119828:cry protein, Drosophila