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Chentao Lin is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these fields, their subfields of study include Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, and Horticulture.

The scientist's main research topics cover Plant Molecular Biology Research, Light effects on plants, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies, RNA modifications and cancer, Bamboo properties and applications, and Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance.

Chentao Lin's work has been published frequently in several venues. These include Nature Plants, Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, and The Plant Journal.

Recent notable papers include the following:

  • Mechanisms of Cryptochrome-Mediated Photoresponses in Plants, 2020, Annual Review of Plant Biology
  • A photoregulatory mechanism of the circadian clock in Arabidopsis, 2021, Nature Plants
  • Photooligomerization Determines Photosensitivity and Photoreactivity of Plant Cryptochromes, 2020, Molecular Plant
  • Light-induced LLPS of the CRY2/SPA1/FIO1 complex regulating mRNA methylation and chlorophyll homeostasis in Arabidopsis, 2023, Nature Plants
  • Regulation of Arabidopsis photoreceptor CRY2 by two distinct E3 ubiquitin ligases, 2021, Nature Communications

Chentao Lin has collaborated frequently with a core group of co-authors, including Qin Wang, Xu Wang, Lianfeng Gu, Bochen Jiang, and Yadi Chen.

Best Publications

  • Regulation of Flowering Time by Arabidopsis Photoreceptors

    Hongwei Guo;Hongyun Yang;Todd C. Mockler;Chentao Lin

  • Photoexcited CRY2 Interacts with CIB1 to Regulate Transcription and Floral Initiation in Arabidopsis

    Hongtao Liu;Xuhong Yu;Kunwu Li;John Klejnot

  • Enhancement of blue-light sensitivity of Arabidopsis seedlings by a blue light receptor cryptochrome 2

    Chentao Lin;Hongyun Yang;Hongwei Guo;Todd Mockler

  • Cryptochrome structure and signal transduction.

    Chentao Lin;Dror Shalitin

  • Constitutive expression of the cold-regulated Arabidopsis thaliana COR15a gene affects both chloroplast and protoplast freezing tolerance

    Nancy N. Artus;Matsuo Uemura;Peter L. Steponkus;Sarah J. Gilmour

  • Association of Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide with the Arabidopsis Blue Light Receptor CRY1

    Chentao Lin;D. E. Robertson;M. Ahmad;A. A. Raibekas

  • Blue light receptors and signal transduction

    Chentao Lin

  • Antagonistic actions of Arabidopsis cryptochromes and phytochrome B in the regulation of floral induction.

    Todd C. Mockler;Hongwei Guo;Hongyun Yang;Hien Duong

  • Blue Light-Dependent Interaction of CRY2 with SPA1 Regulates COP1 activity and Floral Initiation in Arabidopsis

    Zecheng Zuo;Hongtao Liu;Bin Liu;Xuanming Liu

  • Arabidopsis cryptochrome 1 interacts with SPA1 to suppress COP1 activity in response to blue light.

    Bin Liu;Zecheng Zuo;Hongtao Liu;Xuanming Liu

  • Regulation of Arabidopsis cryptochrome 2 by blue-light-dependent phosphorylation

    Dror Shalitin;Hongyun Yang;Todd C. Mockler;Maskit Maymon

  • Plant blue-light receptors.

    Chentao Lin

  • Regulation of photoperiodic flowering by Arabidopsis photoreceptors.

    Todd Mockler;Hongyun Yang;XuHong Yu;Dhavan Parikh

  • The action mechanisms of plant cryptochromes

    Hongtao Liu;Bin Liu;Chenxi Zhao;Michael Pepper

  • The Cryptochrome Blue Light Receptors

    Xuhong Yu;Hongtao Liu;John Klejnot;Chentao Lin

  • Mutations throughout an Arabidopsis blue-light photoreceptor impair blue-light-responsive anthocyanin accumulation and inhibition of hypocotyl elongation

    Margaret Ahmad;Chentao Lin;Anthony R. Cashmore

  • Photoreceptors and Regulation of Flowering Time

    Chentao Lin

  • Arabidopsis cryptochrome 1 is a soluble protein mediating blue light-dependent regulation of plant growth and development

    Chentao Lin;Margaret Ahmad;Anthony R. Cashmore

  • Expression of an Arabidopsis cryptochrome gene in transgenic tobacco results in hypersensitivity to blue, UV-A, and green light.

    Chentao Lin;Margaret Ahmad;Donna Gordon;Anthony R. Cashmore

  • DNA Sequence Analysis of a Complementary DNA for Cold-Regulated Arabidopsis Gene cor15 and Characterization of the COR 15 Polypeptide.

    Chentao Lin;Michael F. Thomashow

Frequent Co-Authors

Todd C. Mockler
Todd C. Mockler Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Hongwei Guo
Hongwei Guo Southern University of Science and Technology
Anthony R. Cashmore
Anthony R. Cashmore University of Pennsylvania
James A. Wohlschlegel
James A. Wohlschlegel University of California, Los Angeles
Margaret Ahmad
Margaret Ahmad Xavier University
Michael F. Thomashow
Michael F. Thomashow Michigan State University
Elaine M. Tobin
Elaine M. Tobin University of California, Los Angeles
Dongping Zhong
Dongping Zhong The Ohio State University
Winslow R. Briggs
Winslow R. Briggs Carnegie Institution for Science
Karam B. Singh
Karam B. Singh Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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