Turning over a green leaf: integrating light signals toward chloroplast establishment
Anniek Oosterwijk, Gabriela Toledo-Ortiz, Andrés Romanowski, Charlotte M M Gommers · 2026
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Anniek Oosterwijk, Gabriela Toledo-Ortiz, Andres Romanowski, and Charlotte Gommers review how light builds the photosynthetic machinery in seedlings in a 2026 update paper. Seedlings grown in darkness are primed to green rapidly when light arrives. Their dormant plastids transform into working chloroplasts through a tightly regulated, multi level process. Light steers gene reading, protein building, and chemical tagging of proteins in both the plastid and the nucleus.
Light is sensed by dedicated receptors in the nucleus and also directly inside plastids, where it drives pigment production and triggers structural change. Membrane fats are adjusted and photosynthetic proteins installed to build the internal membranes that house the light reactions. The review gathers current understanding of these integrated signals. It follows the whole transition from pale, fed seedling to self feeding green plant.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Anniek Oosterwijk, Gabriela Toledo-Ortiz, Andrés Romanowski, Charlotte M M Gommers |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |