Coronatine is a toxin effector produced by the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae to mimic the plant hormone jasmonic acid‐isoleucine and this assists bacterial infection.

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PIFs as constitutive transcriptional repressors in the dark

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One of the most extensively characterized of these factors is PIF3, a basic helix-loophelix (bHLH) transcription factor that interacts with both phyA and phyB.

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Direct regulation of gene expression by phyB transport to the nucleus.

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phyA is rapidly degraded following its activation by light. Thus, protein degradation, in addition to phosphorylation, is emerging as a ubiquitous mechanism regulating many cellular processes, including light and hormone signaling, circadian rhythms, and flowering time.

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Some genes encode proteins are called CONSTITUTIVE PHOTO-MORPHOGENESIS1 (COP1), DE-ETIOLATED (DET), and FUSCA (FUS).

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These genes encode proteins of the COP1–SUPPRESSOR OF PHYA (COP1–SPA) complex, the COP9 signalosome (CSN) complex.