Journal
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 73, Issue 21, Pages 7126-7138Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erac220
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Anterograde signals; chloroplast; cryptochrome photoreceptors; GUN mutants; HY5; MEcPP; photomorphogenesis; phytochrome photoreceptors; plastome; retrograde signals; tetrapyrroles
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- Royal Society International Exchange grant [IEC\R1\180047]
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The red and blue plant photoreceptors play essential roles in promoting photomorphogenesis and chloroplast functions, and their intertwining with retrograde signals optimize chloroplast activities. They also have a convergence with dual-localized proteins in regulating photosynthetic activities in changing environments.
The red phytochrome and blue cryptochrome plant photoreceptors play essential roles in promoting genome-wide changes in nuclear and chloroplastic gene expression for photomorphogenesis, plastid development, and greening. While their importance in anterograde signalling has been long recognized, the molecular mechanisms involved remain under active investigation. More recently, the intertwining of the light signalling cascades with the retrograde signals for the optimization of chloroplast functions has been acknowledged. Advances in the field support the participation of phytochromes, cryptochromes, and key light-modulated transcription factors, including HY5 and the PIFs, in the regulation of chloroplastic biochemical pathways that produce retrograde signals, including the tetrapyrroles and the chloroplastic MEP-isoprenoids. Interestingly, in a feedback loop, the photoreceptors and their signalling components are targets themselves of these retrograde signals, aimed at optimizing photomorphogenesis to the status of the chloroplasts, with GUN proteins functioning at the convergence points. High light and shade are also conditions where the photoreceptors tune growth responses to chloroplast functions. Interestingly, photoreceptors and retrograde signals also converge in the modulation of dual-localized proteins (chloroplastic/nuclear) including WHIRLY and HEMERA/pTAC12, whose functions are required for the optimization of photosynthetic activities in changing environments and are proposed to act themselves as retrograde signals. Phytochrome and cryptochrome photoreceptors are essential for tuning photomorphogenesis and chloroplast functions, yet their integration in the interorganellar communication cascades for proper environmental responsiveness is just beginning to be addressed.
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