title: Changing the light environment: chloroplast signalling and response mechanisms.
abstract: Light is an essential environmental factor required for photosynthesis, but it also mediates signals to control plant development and growth and induces stress tolerance. The photosynthetic organelle (chloroplast) is a key component in the signalling and response network in plants. This theme issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biology provides updates, highlights and summaries of the most recent findings on chloroplast-initiated signalling cascades and responses to environmental changes, including light and biotic stress. Besides plant molecular cell biology and physiology, the theme issue includes aspects from the cross-disciplinary fields of environmental adaptation, ecology and agronomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, , PO Box 461, Gothenburg 40530, Sweden.
authors.forename: Cornelia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Spetea
authors.forename: Eevi
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rintamäki
authors.forename: Benoît
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schoefs
mesh_terms: D002736:Chloroplasts / Q000502:physiology*; D004777:Environment; D055537:Light Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena