Selected Publications

Kang, X., and Ni, M. (2006). HYPERSENSITIVE TO RED AND BLUE 1 and its C-terminal regulatory function define a signaling step in photoperiodic control of FLOWERING LOCUS T expression (under revision).


Kang, X., and Ni, M. 2006. SHORT HYPOCOTYL UNDER BLUE 1 , an Arabidopsis protein containing a SPX domain and an EXS domain, acts in cryptochrome signaling. Plant Cell 18, 921-934.


Chen M, and Ni M, 2006. RED AND FAR-RED INSENSITIVE 2, a RING-domain zinc-finger protein, negatively regulates CONSTANS expression and photoperiodic flowering. Plant Journal Plant Journal 46, 823-833.


Chen M, and Ni M, 2006. RED AND FAR-RED INSENSITIVE 2, a RING-domain zinc-finger protein, mediates phytochrome-controlled seedling de-etiolation responses. Plant Physiology140, 457-465.

Ni M, 2005. Integration of light signaling with photoperiodic flowering and circadian rhythm. Cell Research 1748-7838.

Ni M, 2005. Downstream integrators of red, far-red, and blue light signaling for photomorphogenesis. In Light Sensing in Plants , M. Wada, K. Shimazaki, and M. Iino eds. ( Sringer-Verlag, Tokyo).


Kang X, Chong J, and Ni M, 2005. HYPERSENSITIVE TO RED AND BLUE 1, a ZZ-type zinc finger protein, regulates phytochrome B-mediated red and cryptochrome-mediated blue light responses. Plant Cell 17:822-835.


Ni, M., J. Tepperman, and P. Quail. 1999. Binding of phytochrome B to its nuclear signaling partner PIF3 is reversibly induced by light. Nature 400:781-784.


Halliday, K., M. Hudson, M. Ni, M. Qin, and P. Quail. 1999. poc1: an Arabidopsis mutant perturbed in phytochrome signaling due to a T-DNA insertion in the promoter of PIF3, a gene encoding a phytochrome-interacting, bHLH protein. PNAS 96:5832-5837.


Ni, M., J. Tepperman, and P. Quail. 1998. PIF3, a phytochrome interacting factor necessary for photoinduced signal transduction, is a basic helix-loop-helix protein. Cell 95:657-667.


Ni, M., K. Dehesh, J. Tepperman, and P. Quail. 1996. GT-2: In vivo transcriptional activation activity and definition of twin novel DNA-binding domains with reciprocal target-site selectivity. Plant Cell 8:1041-1059.

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