What is it about?
It is about how a potential green-light responsive protein in fungi may mediate fungal responses to light and oxygen during their sexual reproduction.
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Why is it important?
The first phenotype of potential green-light sensor NOP-1 reported in Neurospora crassa, a genetic model for fungal light responsive pathways.
Perspectives
Light, temperature, oxygen level, ROS, etc. many environmental factors are tightly associated with day/night shift and seasonal changes. How species comprehensively respond to multi-dimension regulation during their life cycles is of great interest to biologist. I hope this article shows how fungal models would be useful on that research topic.
Zheng Wang
Yale University
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This page is a summary of: Light sensing by opsins and fungal ecology: NOP-1 modulates entry into sexual reproduction in response to environmental cues, Molecular Ecology, December 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/mec.14425.
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