PIF1 directly and indirectly regulates chlorophyll biosynthesis to optimize the greening process in Arabidopsis.

ABSTRACT: Plants depend on light signals to modulate many aspects of their development and optimize their photosynthetic capacity. Phytochromes (phys), a family of photoreceptors, initiate a signal transduction pathway that alters expression of a large number of genes to induce these responses. Recently, phyA and phyB were shown to bind members of a basic helix-loop-helix family of transcription factors called phy-interacting factors (PIFs). PIF1 negatively regulates chlorophyll biosynthesis and seed germination in the dark, and light-induced degradation of PIF1 relieves this negative regulation to promote photomorphogenesis. Here, we report that PIF1 regulates expression of a discrete set of genes in the dark, including protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (POR), ferrochelatase (FeChII), and heme oxy

SUBMITTER: Moon J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2453699 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature