Thermosensing Enlightened.
Understanding the molecular networks driving plant responses to high ambient temperatures is crucial for developing crop cultivars resistant to global warming. Although several factors involved in temperature signalling are known, a thermosensing mechanism had remained elusive. However, two recent publications demonstrate that the photoreceptor phytochrome B (phyB) also acts as a thermosensor.
Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Betty-Heimann Str. 5, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany.
Carolin
C
Delker
Molecular Plant Physiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Martijn
M
van Zanten
Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Betty-Heimann Str. 5, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany. Electronic address: marcel.quint@landw.uni-halle.de.
Marcel
M
Quint
D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology*; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D051939:Phytochrome B / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology*; D013697:Thermosensing / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*
D051939:Phytochrome B