title: My Path from Chemistry to Phytochrome and Circadian Rhythms.
abstract: I summarize my scientific journey from my first interest in science to my career investigating how plants use the phytochrome photoreceptor to regulate what genes they express. I then describe how this work led to an understanding of how circadian rhythms function in plants and to the discovery of CCA1, a component of the plant central oscillator.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Elaine M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Tobin
keywords: CCA1; LHY; circadian rhythms; photoperiodic flowering; phytochrome