At 27 degrees, the number dropped to only five types. Though all of them contain the temperature-sensing protein phytochrome ...

How is this possible? The explanation came from one of the 20th century’s great discoveries in plant science: detection of the elusive pigment phytochrome, whose action determines how plants are able ...

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Plants’ ability to sense light and temperature, hinges on free-forming structures in their cells. Researchers have determined how these structures work on a molecular level, as well as where and how ...

When the plants are exposed to light, phytochrome far red is in production and keeps the plant in the vegetative stage. As soon as you expose your plants to a dark period, the phytochrome far red ...

One is a protein, a large molecule called a phytochrome that reacts to light availability. When the light changes, the molecule twitches. “They really are little light switches,” Osnas says.

Throughout the tree are chemicals that are sensitive to light, called cryptochrome and phytochrome. These chemicals are so sensitive that trees can register day length changes of as little as 30 ...

Stephen A. Rolfe, University of Sheffield Dr Rolfe was awarded a European Molecular Biology Fellowship and undertook postdoctoral research on the phytochrome regulation of gene expression at the ...

Excess of light constitutes a form of abiotic stress. Photobodies form via the condensation of the light and temperature sensor phytochrome B. Here, the authors label photobodies using nuclear ...

Photobodies form via the condensation of the light and temperature sensor phytochrome B. Here, the authors label photobodies using nuclear landmarks to demonstrate the nonrandom thermos-sensitive ...