Our report on a direct transcriptional repression mechanism by the photoreceptor phytochrome B has been published in Nature Communications. Congrats to all authors, particularly Chan Yu, Jiangman, and Qing!
The Arabidopsis red and far-red photoreceptor phytochrome B is known to regulate gene expression indirectly by modulating the abundance of a family of basic helix-loo-helix transcriptional regulators called PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTORs (PIFs). In this study published in Nature Communications, we report a new plant light signaling mechanism, in which phytochrome B controls light-responsive genes via direct [...]