Exploring how light regulates plant growth & development

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

Calderon RH, de Vitry C, Wollman F-A and Niyogi KK (2023). Rubredoxin 1 promotes the proper folding of D1 and is not required for heme b559 assembly in Chlamydomonas photosystem II. J Biol Chem 299 (3).

Calderon RH, Dalton J, Zhang Y and Quail PH (2022). Shade triggers PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR-dependent increases in H3K4 trimethylation. Plant Physiol. 190: 1914-1926.

Calderon RH and Strand Å (2021). How retrograde signaling is intertwined with the evolution of photosynthetic eukaryotes. Curr Opin Plant Biol 63: 102093.

Dent RM, Sharifi MN, Malnoë A, Haglund C, Calderon RH, Wakao S and Niyogi KK (2015). Large-scale insertional mutagenesis of Chlamydomonas supports phylogenomic functional prediction of photosynthetic genes and analysis of classical acetate-requiring mutants. Plant J. 82: 337-351.

Calderon RH, García-Cerdán JG, Malnoë A, Cook R, Russell JJ, Gaw C, Dent RM, de Vitry C and Niyogi KK (2013). A conserved rubredoxin is necessary for photosystem II accumulation in diverse oxygenic phototrophs. J Biol Chem 288: 26688-26696.

Leivar P, Tepperman JM, Monte E, Calderon RH, Liu TL and Quail PH (2009). Definition of early transcriptional circuitry involved in light-induced reversal of PIF-imposed repression of photomorphogenesis in young Arabidopsis seedlings. Plant Cell 21: 3535-3553.

Preprints

Calderon RH, de Vitry C, Wollman F-A and Niyogi KK (2022) FtsH Protease Inactivation Allows Accumulation of Aberrant Photosystem II in a Chlamydomonas Rubredoxin Mutant. bioRxiv.

Calderon RH, Dalton J, Zhang Y and Quail PH (2022) Shade-induced transcription of PIF-Direct-Target Genes precedes H3K4-trimethylation chromatin modification rises. bioRxiv.

Popular science articles

Calderon RH (2023). Salt and peppers: two spices meet to turn up the heat. Physiol Plant, 175: e13967.
Calderon RH (2022). A lycophyte’s plight when the light is too bright. Physiol Plant, 172 (2)
Calderon RH (2020). The temperatures, they are a-changin’: How to produce biofuels in a warming world. Physiol Plant 170: 459-461.
Calderon RH (2020). More than just a pair of blue genes: how cyanobacteria adapt to changes in their light environment. Physiol Plant 170: 7-9.
Calderon RH (2020). Red LEDs leave plants singing the blues. Physiol Plant 169:7-9.