March 2024
February 2024
November 2023
Our latest work on the function of photobodies is posted on bioRxiv. Congratulations Jean Ae, De, Jiangman, Keunhwa, and Juan!
Our manuscript "Photobodies enable the phase-separation and counterbalance of opposing phytochrome B actions in PIF5 degradation and stabilization" is now online. This work reveals that phytochrome B condensation enables the co-occurrence and competition of two antagonistic phase-separated signaling actions. Link to the paper: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.12.566724 Abstract: Photoactivation of the plant photoreceptor and thermosensor phytochrome B (PHYB) [...]
March 2023
In collaboration with Xuemei Chen’s lab, we report the function of microRNAs in thermomorphogenesis in Nature Communications! Congratulations to Qing, Lusheng, Tianxiang, Yongjian, and Juan!
In collaboration with Xuemei Chen lab, our new article published today in Nature Communications unveils a previously uncharacterized function of microRNA156 in the plant's phenotypic plasticity in response to environmental temperature and light changes. Read the article here. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play diverse roles in plant development, but whether and how miRNAs participate in thermomorphogenesis remain [...]
December 2022
October 2021
September 2021
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 [...]
August 2021
Congrats Prof. Yoo
Chan Yul has taken an Assistant Professor position in the School of Biological Sciences at University of Utah. Congratulations, Prof. Yoo!
April 2021
Our new paper on temperature signaling is featured in Editor’s Highlights at Nature Communications
Our new research article entitled "RCB initiates Arabidopsis thermomorphogenesis by stabilizing the thermoregulator PIF4 in the daytime" has been published in Nature Communications. This study identifies RCB (REGULATOR OF CHLOROPLAST BIOGENESIS) as a new essential component of temperature signaling in Arabidopsis. We show that RCB interacts directly with HEMERA, another temperature signaling component identified by [...]