中国科学院爱因斯坦讲习教授 Winslow Briggs 介绍
美国斯坦福大学卡耐基研究院植物研究所名誉所长 Winslow Briggs 教授，获得
中国科学院爱因斯坦讲席教授邀请，将来研究生院做报告。
Briggs 教授毕业于哈佛大学（本科、硕士、博士），其后曾在斯坦福大学及哈佛
大学担任生物系教授，于 1973-1993 年担任卡耐基研究院植物研究所所长，现
为名誉所长。
Briggs 教授先后获得许多重要荣誉：1974 美国科学院院士，1975 美国艺术与科
学院院士，德国洪堡基金奖励，2007 年美国植物学会 Adolph E. Gude, Jr.奖励；
2009 年日本学术振兴会国际生物学奖赏。先后共同主持了光受体 Gordon 大会，
植物分子生物学 Gordon 大会，美国科学院植物学部分会。
Briggs 教授自 1959 年起，长期担任 Annual Review of Plant Biologist（影响因
子为 23）的主编或副主编，现仍担任该杂志的副主编。
Briggs 教授长期从事植物对光（蓝光和红光）应答的生理机制及光受体系统的研
究，是世界上该领域的开创者。
Publications, Winslow R. Briggs
(December 2008 update)
1. Howard, R. A. and W. R. Briggs. 1953. The vegetation on coastal dogtooth limestone
in southern Cuba. J. Arnold Arboretum 34:88-96.
2. Howard, R. A. and W. R. Briggs. 1953. New species and distribution records for Las
Villas Province, Cuba. J. Arnold Arboretum 34:182-186.
3. Briggs, W. R. 1953. Some plants of Mount McKinley National Park, McGonagall
Mountain area. Rhodora 55:245-252.
4. Briggs, W. R., G. Morel, T. A. Steeves, I. M. Sussex, and R. H. Wetmore. 1955. Enzymatic
auxin inactivation by extracts of the fern Osmunda cinnamomea L. Plant Physiol.
30:143-148.
5. Briggs, W. R., T. A. Steeves, I. M. Sussex, and R. H. Wetmore 1955. A comparison of
auxin destruction by tissue extracts and intact tissues of the fern Osmunda
cinnamomea L. Plant Physiol. 30:148-155.
6. Briggs, W. R., and P. M. Ray. 1956. An auxin inactivation system involving tyrosinase.
Plant Physiol. 31:165-167.
7. Briggs, W. R., R. D. Tocher, and J. F. Wilson. 1957. Phototropic auxin redistribution in
corn coleoptiles. Science 126:210-212.
8. Steeves, T. A. and W. R. Briggs. 1958. Morphogenetic studies on Osmunda
cinnamomea L.: The origin and early development of vegetative fronds.
Phytomorphology 8:60-72.
9. Briggs, W. R. and T. A. Steeves. 1958. Morphogenetic studies on Osmunda cinnamomea
L.: The expansion and maturation of vegetative fronds. Phytomorphology 8:234-248.
10. Briggs, W. R. and T. A. Steeves. 1959. Morphogenetic studies on Osmunda cinnamomea
L.:The mechanism of crozier uncoiling. Phytomorphology 9:134-147.
11. Steeves, T. A. and W. R. Briggs. 1960. Morphogenetic studies on Osmunda cinnamomea
L.: The auxin relationships of expanding fronds. J. Exp. Botany 11:45-67.
12. Scott, T. K. and W. R. Briggs. 1960. Auxin relationships in the Alaska pea (Pisum
sativum). Am. J. Bot. 47:492-499.
13. Briggs, W. R. 1960. Light dosage and the phototropic responses of corn and oat
coleoptiles. Plant Physiol. 35:951-962.
14. Gillespie, B. and W. R. Briggs. 1961. Mediation of geotropic response by lateral
transport of auxin. Plant Physiol. 36:364-368.
15. Laetsch, W. M. and W. R. Briggs. 1961. Kinetin modification of sporeling ontogeny in
Marsilea vestita. Am. J. Bot. 48:369-377.
16. Laetsch, W. M. and W. R. Briggs. 1962. Photomorphogenetic responses of sporelings
of Marsilea vestita. Plant Physiol. 37:142-148.
17. Scott, T. K. and W. R. Briggs. 1962. Recovery of native and applied auxin from the
light-grown 'Alaska' pea seedling. Am. J. Bot. 49:1056-1063.
18. Briggs, W. R. 1963. Red light, auxin relationships, and the phototropic responses of
corn and oat coleoptiles. Am. J. Bot. 50:196-207.
19. Briggs, W. R. 1963. Mediation of phototropic responses of corn coleoptiles by lateral
transport of auxin. Plant Physiol. 38:237-247.
20. Zimmerman, B. K. and W. R. Briggs. 1963. Phototropic dosage-reponse curves for oat
coleoptiles. Plant Physiol. 38:248-253.
21. Zimmerman, B. K. and W. R. Briggs. 1963. A kinetic model for phototropic responses
of oat coleoptiles. Plant Physiol. 38:253-261.
22. Scott, T. K. and W. R. Briggs. 1963. Recovery of native and applied auxin from the
dark-grown 'Alaska' pea seedling. Am. J. Bot. 50:652-657.
23. Laetsch, W. M. and W. R. Briggs. 1963. Correlative inhibition and the primary organs
of Marsilea vestita. Bot. Gaz. 124:317-324.
24. Briggs, W. R. 1963. The phototropic responses of higher plants. Ann. Rev. Plant
Physiol. 14:311-352.
25. Briggs, W. R. 1964. Phototropism in higher plants. In: Photophysiology, A. C. Giese,
ed., Academic Press, New York, pp.223-271.
26. Briggs, W. R. and H. W. Siegelman. 1965. Distribution of phytochrome in etiolated
seedlings. Plant Physiol. 40:934-941.
27. Briggs, W. R. and D. C. Fork. 1965. Studies on phytochrome transformation in vitro.
Carnegie Institution of Washington Year Book 64:406-412.
28. Butler, W. L. and W. R. Briggs. 1966. The relation between structure and pigments
during the first stages of proplastid greening. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 112:45-53.
29. Pratt, L. H. and W. R. Briggs. 1966. Photochemical and nonphotochemical reactions of
phytochrome in vivo. Plant Physiol. 41: 467-474.
30. Briggs, W. R. and H. P. Chon. 1966. The physiological versus the spectrophotometric
status of phytochrome in corn coleoptiles. Plant Physiol. 41:1159-1166.
31. Sargent, M. L., W. R. Briggs, and D. O. Woodward. 1966. Circadian nature of a rhythm
expressed by an invertaseless strain of Neurospora crassa.
Plant Physiol.
41:1323-1349.
32. Chon, H. P. and W. R. Briggs. 1966. Effect of red light on the phototropic sensitivity of
corn coleoptiles. Plant Physiol. 41:1715-1724.
33. Sargent, M. L. and W. R. Briggs. 1967. The effects of light on a circadian rhythm of
conidiation in Neurospora. Plant Physiol. 42:1504-1510.
34. Cleland, C. F. and W. R. Briggs. 1967. Flowering responses of the long-day plant
Lemna gibba G3. Plant Physiol. 42:1553-1561.
35. Briggs, W. R. and D. C. Fork. 1967. Intermediates in phytochrome transformation in
vivo and in vitro. Carnegie Institution of Washington Year Book 65:203-208.
36. Cleland, C. F. and W. R. Briggs. 1968. Effect of low-intensity red and far-red light and
high-intensity white light on the flowering response of the long-day plant Lemna
gibba G3. Plant Physiol. 43:157-162.
37. Briggs, W. R., W. D. Zollinger, and B. B. Platz. 1968. Some properties of phytochrome
isolated from dark-grown oat seedlings (Avena sativa L.). Plant Physiol. 43:1239-1243.
38. Purves, W. K. and W. R. Briggs. 1968. Kinetically distinguishable populations of
phytochrome. Plant Physiol. 43:1259-1263.
39. Raper, J. R. and W. R. Briggs. 1968. Robert Meredith Page - 1919-1968. Plant Science Bull.
14,3:6-7.
40. Tobin, E. M. and W. R. Briggs. 1969. Phytochrome in embryos of Pinus palustris. Plant
Physiol. 44:148-150.
41. Cleland, C. F. and W. R. Briggs. 1969. Gibberellin and CCC effects on flowering and growth
in the long-day plant Lemna gibba G3. Plant Physiol. 44:503-507.
42. Briggs, W. R. and D. C. Fork. 1969. Long-lived intermediates in phytochrome
transformation I:In vitro studies. Plant Physiol. 44:1081-1088.
43. Briggs, W. R. and D. C. Fork. 1969. Long-lived intermediates in phytochrome
transformation II: In vitro and in vivo studies. Plant Physiol. 44:1089-1094.
44. McArthur, J. A. and W. R. Briggs. 1970. Phytochrome appearance and distribution in the
embryonic axis and seedling of Alaska peas. Planta 91:146-154.
45. Fosket, E. B. and W. R. Briggs. 1970. Photosensitive seed germination in Catalpa
speciosa. Bot. Gaz. 131:167-172.
46. Everett, M. S. and W. R. Briggs. 1970. Some spectral properties of pea phytochrome
in vivo and in vitro. Plant Physiol. 45:679-683.
47. Everett, M. S., W. R. Briggs, and W. K. Purves. 1970. Kinetics of phytochrome
phototransformation: A reexamination. Plant Physiol. 45: 805-806.
48. McArthur, J. A. and W. R. Briggs. 1971. In vivo phytochrome reversion in immature
tissues of the Alaska pea seedling. Plant Physiol. 48:46-49.
49. Gardner, G., C. S. Pike, H. V. Rice, and W. R. Briggs. 1971. "Disaggregation" of
phytochrome in vitro - a consequence of proteolysis. Plant Physiol. 48:686-693.
50. Nicholson, N. L. and W. R. Briggs. 1971. Translocation of photosynthate in the brown
alga Nereocystis. Am. J. Bot. 59:97-106.
51. Briggs, W. R., H. V. Rice, G. Gardner, and C. S. Pike. 1971. The nature of purified
phytochrome. In: Recent Advances in Phytochemistry. Structural and Functional
Aspects of Phytochemistry. V.C. Runeckles, ed. Academic Press, New York, pp. 35-50.
52. Pike, C. S. and W. R. Briggs. 1971. The dark reactions of rye phytochrome in vivo and
in vitro. Plant Physiol. 49:514-520.
53. Pike, C. S. and W. R. Briggs. 1972. Partial purification and characterization of a
phytochrome-degrading neutral protease from etiolated oat shoots. Plant Physiol.
49:521-530.
54. Briggs, W. R. and H. V. Rice. 1972. Phytochrome: Chemical and physical properties
and mechanism of action. Ann. Rev. Plant Physiol. 23:293-334.
55. Newman, I. A. and W. R. Briggs. 1972. Phytochrome-mediated electric potential
changes in oat seedlings. Plant Physiol. 50:687-693.
56. Briggs, W. R., G. Gardner, and D. W. Hopkins. 1972. Some technical problems in
purification of phytochrome. In: Phytochrome. K. Mitrakos, W. Shropshire, Jr.,
eds. Academic Press, New York, pp. 146-158.
57. Garrison, R. and W. R. Briggs. 1972. Internodal growth in localized darkness. Bot.
Gaz. 133:270-276.
58. Rice, H. V., W. R. Briggs, and C. J. Jackson-White. 1973. Purification of oat and rye
phytochrome. Plant Physiol. 51:917-926.
59. Rice, H. V. and W. R. Briggs. 1973. Partial characterization of oat and rye
phytochrome. Plant Physiol. 51:927-938.
60. Rice, H. V. and W. R. Briggs. 1973. Immunochemistry of phytochrome Plant Physiol.
51:939-945.
61. Tobin, E. M. and W. R. Briggs. 1973. Studies on the protein conformation of
phytochrome. Photochem. Photobiol. 18:487-495.
62. Tobin, E. M., W. R. Briggs, and P. K. Brown. 1973. The role of hydration in the
phototransformation of phytochrome. Photochem. Photobiol. 18:497-503.
63. Song, P.-S., W. Chae, D. A. Lightner, W. R. Briggs, and D. Hopkins. 1973. Fluorescence
characteristics of phytochrome and biliverdins. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 95:7892-7894.
64. Marme, D., J. Boisard, and W. R. Briggs. 1973. Binding properties in vitro of
phytochrome to a membrane fraction. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 70:3861-3865.
64A. (Book)Wilson, E. D., T. Eisner, W. R. Briggs, R. E. Dickerson, R. L. Metzenberg,
R. D. O'Brien, M. Sussman, and W. E. Boggs. 1973. Life on Earth. An
Introductory Biology Text. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Mass. 1033 pp.
65. Gardner, G. and W. R. Briggs. 1974. Some properties of photo-transformation of rye
phytochrome in vitro. Photochem. Photobiol. 19:367-377.
66. Gardner, G., W. Thompson, and W. R. Briggs. 1974. Differential reactivity of the red
and far-red absorbing forms of phytochrome to (14C) N-ethyl maleimide. Planta
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Marme, Dieter, J. M. Mackenzie, Jr., J. Boisard, and W. R. Briggs. 1974. The isolation
and partial characterization of a membrane fraction containing phytochrome. Plant
Physiology 54:263-271.
Boisard, J., D. Marme, and W. R. Briggs. 1974. In vivo properties of membrane-bound
phytochrome. Plant Physiol. 54:272-276.
Mackenzie, J. M. Jr., R. A. Coleman, W. R. Briggs, and L. H. Pratt. 1975. Reversible
redistribution of phytochrome within the cell upon conversion to its physiologically
active form. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 72:799-803. CIW Publication No. 539.
Briggs, Winslow R. 1973. Phytochrome: Plant light sensor and photoswitch. In:
Anias da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, Vol. 45, Suplemento, 1973: Novas
Tendencias em Fotobiologia, Luiz Renato Caldas, ed., pp. 85-91. CIW Publication No.
556.
Negbi, Moshe, David W. Hopkins, and Winslow R. Briggs. 1975. Acceleration of dark
reversion of phytochrome in vitro by calcium and magnesium. Plant Physiol.
56:157-159. CIW Publication No. 554.
Song, P.-S., Quae Chae, and Winslow R. Briggs. 1975. Temperature dependence of the
fluorescence quantum yield of phytochrome. Photochem. Photobiol. 22:75-76. CIW
Publication No. 564.
Garrison, R. and Winslow R. Briggs. 1975. The growth of internodes in Helianthus
annuus in response to far-red light. Bot. Gaz. 136:353-357. CIW Publication No.
549.
Britz, S. J., J. Pfau, W. Nultsch, and W. R. Briggs. 1976. Automatic monitoring of a
circadian rhythm of change in light transmittance in Ulva. Plant Physiol. 58:17-21.
CIW Publication No. 566.
Britz, S. J. and W. R. Briggs. 1976. Circadian rhythms of chloroplast orientation and
photosynthetic capacity in Ulva. Plant Physiol. 58:22-27. CIW Publication No. 565.
76. Briggs, W. R. 1976.
H. O. Borthwick and S. B Hendricks - Pioneers of
Photomorphogenesis. In Light and Plant Development - Proceedings of the 22nd
Nottingham Easter School in Agricultural Sciences, Harry Smith, Ed., Butterworth and
Co., Ltd., London, pp.1-4. CIW Publication No. 553.
77. Briggs, W. R. 1976. The nature of the blue light photoreceptor in higher plants and
fungi. In: Light and Plant Development of the 22nd Nottingham Easter school in
Agricultural Sciences, Harry Smith, Ed., Butterworth and Co., Ltd., London, pp. 7-18.
CIW Publication No. 570.
78. Britz, S. J., J. M. Mackenzie, Jr., and W. R. Briggs. 1977. Non-homogeneous pigment
distribution, multiple cell layers and the determination of phytochrome by in vivo
spectrophotometry. Photochem. Photobiol. 25:137-140. CIW publication No. 571.
79. Brain, R. D. and W. R. Briggs, 1977. Light-induced cytochrome reduction in Neurospora
crassa membrane fractions. In: Proceedings, 7th International Congress of
Photobiology, A. Castellani, ed., Plenum Press, London, 539-544. CIW Publication
No. 583.
80. Jesaitis, A. J., P. R. Heners, R. Hertel and W. R. Briggs. 1977. Characterization of a
membrane fraction containing a b-type cytochrome. Plant Physiol. 59:941-947. CIW
Publication No. 575.
81. Brain, R. D., J. Freeberg, C. V. Weiss and W. R. Briggs. 1977. Blue light-induced
absorbance changes in membrane fractions from corn and Neurospora. Plant
Physiol. 59:948-952. CIW Publication No. 578.
82. Rhee, C. and W. R. Briggs. 1977. Some responses of Chondrus crispus to light. I.
Pigmentation changes in the natural habitat. Bot. Gaz. 138:123-128. CIW
Publication No. 580.
83. Cross, J. W. and W. R. Briggs. 1977. Labeling of membranes from erythrocytes and
corn with fluorescamine. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 471:67-77. CIW Publication No.
596.
84. Vanderhoef, L. N. and W. R. Briggs. 1978. Red light-inhibited mesocotyl elongation in
maize seedlings. I. The auxin hypothesis. Plant Physiol. 61:534-537. CIW
Publication No. 595.
85. Cross, J. W., W. R. Briggs, U. C. Dohrmann and P. M. Ray. 1978. Auxin receptors of maize
coleoptile do not have ATPase activity. Plant Physiol. 61:581-584. CIW Publication No.
604.
86. Cross, John W. and Winslow R. Briggs. 1978. Properties of a solubilized microsomal
auxin binding protein from coleoptiles and primary leaves of Zea mays. Plant
Physiol. 62:152-157. CIW Publication No. 620.
87. Mackenzie, J. M. Jr., W. R. Briggs, and L. H. Pratt. 1978. Intracellular phytochrome
distribution as a function of its molecular form and of its destruction. Am. J. Bot.
65:671-676. CIW Publication No. 62l.
88. Mackenzie, J. M. Jr., W. R. Briggs, and L. H.Pratt. 1978. Phytochrome photoreversibility:
Empirical test of the hypothesis that it varies as a consequence of pigment
compartmentation. Planta 141:129-134. CIW Publication No. 622.
89. Quail, Peter H. and Winslow R. Briggs. 1978. Irradiation-enhanced phytochrome
pelletability: requirement for phosphorylative energy in vivo. Plant Physiol.
62:773-778. CIW Publication No. 628.
90. Cuellar, Richard E., Glenn A. Ford, Winslow R. Briggs, and William F. Thompson. 1979.
Application of higher derivative techniques to analysis of high-resolution thermal
denaturation profiles to reassociated repetitive DNA. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., USA,
75:6026-6030. CIW Publication No. 648.
91. McArthur, James A. and Winslow R. Briggs. 1979. The effect of red light upon
geotropism in pea epicotyls. Plant Physiol. 63:218-220. CIW Publication No. 632.
92. Britz, S. J., E. Schrott, S. Widell, and W. R. Briggs. 1979. Red light-induced reduction of a
particle-associated b-type cytochrome from corn in the presence of methylene blue.
Photochem. Photobiol. 29:359-366. CIW Publication No. 624.
93. Britz, S. J. and W. R. Briggs. 1979. News on a blue light-absorbing photoreceptor
system. In: Plant Growth and Light Perception, B.I. Deutsch and A. O. Gyldenholm,
eds., Proceeding, European Photomorphogenesis Meetings, Aarhus, Denmark, August
14-19, 1978, pp. 17-24. CIW Publication No. 650.
94. Vanderhoef, L. N., P. H. Quail, and W. R. Briggs. 1979. Red light-inhibited mesocotyl
elongation in maize seedlings. II. Kinetic and spectral studies. Plant Physiol.
63:1062-67. CIW Publication No. 644.
95. Cross, J. W. and W. R. Briggs. 1979. Solubilized auxin binding protein. Subcellular
localization and regulation by a soluble factor from homogenates of corn shoots.
Planta 146:263-270. CIW Publication No. 656.
96. Hertel, R., A. J. Jesaitis, U. Dohrmann, and W. R. Briggs. 1980. In vitro binding of
riboflavin to subcellular particles from maize coleoptiles and Cucurbita hypocotyls.
Planta 147:312-319. CIW Publication No. 693.
97. Blatt, M. R. and W. R. Briggs. 1980. Blue light-induced cortical fiber reticulation
concomitant with chloroplast aggregation in the alga Vaucheria sessilis. Planta
147:355-362. CIW Publication No. 642.
98. Blatt, M. R., N. K. Wessells, and W. R. Briggs. 1980. Actin and cortical fiber
reticulation in the siphonaceous alga Vaucheria sessilis. Planta 147:363-375. CIW
Publication No. 643.
99. Song, P.-S., D. Fugate, and Winslow R. Briggs. 1978. Flavin as a photoreceptor for
phototropic transduction: Fluorescence studies of model and corn coleoptile
systems. In: 6th Flavin Symposium Proceedings, K. Yagi, T. Yamano, eds., University
Park Press, Baltimore, MD, pp. 443-53. CIW Publication No. 637.
100. Briggs, W. R. and M. R. Blatt. 1980. Blue light responses in the siphonaceous alga
Vaucheria. In: The Blue Light Syndrome, H. Senger, ed., Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp.
261-268. CIW Publication No. 681.
101. Widell, S., S. J. Britz, and W. R. Briggs. 1980. Characterization of the red
light-induced reduction of a particle-associated b-type cytochrome from corn in the
presence of methylene blue. Photochem. Photobiol. 32:669-678. CIW Publication No.
625.
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Quail, P. H. and W. R. Briggs. 1980. Phytochrome pelletability induced by
irradiation in vivo: mixing experiments. Plant Physiol. 66:908-910. CIW Publication
No. 690.
Briggs, W. R. 1980. A blue light photoreceptor system in higher plants and fungi.
In: Photoreceptors and Plant Development, J. A. DeGreef, ed., University of
Antwerpen, pp. 17-28. CIW Publication No. 696.
Gorton, H. L. and W. R. Briggs. 1980. Phytochrome responses to end-of-day
irradiation in light-grown corn grown in the presence and absence of Sandoz 9789,
Plant Physiol. 66:1024-1026. CIW Publication No. 695.
Goldsmith, M. H. M., R. J. Caubergs, and W. R. Briggs. 1980. Light-inducible
cytochrome reduction in membrane preparations from corn coleoptiles. I.
Stabilization and spectral characterization of the reaction. Plant Physiol.
66:1067-1073. CIW Publication No. 662.
Senger, H. and W. R. Briggs. 1981. The blue light receptor(s): primary reactions and
subsequent metabolic changes. In: Photochemical and Photobiological Reviews, K.
Smith, ed., Vol.6, Plenum Press, N.Y., pp. 1-38. CIW Publication No. 706.
Briggs, W. R. 198l. Corn: fuel for food or fuel for automobiles? Bioscience 31:7. CIW
Publication No. 678.
Mandoli, D. F. and W. R. Briggs. 1981. Phytochrome control of two low-irradiance
responses in etiolated oat seedlings. Plant Physiol. 67: 733-739. CIW Publication
No. 707.
Leong, T.-Y. and W. R. Briggs. 1981. Partial purification and characterization of a
blue light-sensitive cytochrome-flavin complex from corn membranes. Plant Physiol.
67:1042-1046. CIW Publication No. 713.
Gorton, H. L. and W. R. Briggs. 1981. Phytochrome-mediated responses in
light-grown corn showing rapid, reverse reciprocity failure. Plant, Cell and
Environment 4:439-447. CIW Publication No. 751.
Gorton, H. L. and W. R. Briggs. 1981. Rapid, reverse reciprocity failure for
phytochrome control of its own accumulation. Plant, Cell Environment, 4:449-454.
CIW Publication No. 752.
Leong, T.-Y., R. D. Vierstra, and W. R. Briggs. 1981. A blue light-sensitive
cytochrome-flavin complex from corn coleoptiles. Further characterization.
Photochem. Photobiol. 34:697-703. CIW Publication No. 745.
Sundqvist, C., and W. R. Briggs. 1982. The effect of d-aminolevulinic acid on red
light-induced unrolling of dark-grown barley leaf sections. Physiologia Plantarum
54:131-136. CIW Publication No. 744.
Mandoli, D. F. and W. R. Briggs. 1982. The photoperceptive sites and the function
of tissue light piping in photomorphogenesis of etiolated oat seedlings. Plant, Cell
Environment 5:137-145. CIW Publication No. 750.
Sarkar, H. K., P.-S. Song, T.-Y. Leong, and W. R. Briggs. 1982. A fluorescence lifetime
assay of a membrane-bound flavin from corn coleoptiles. Photochem. Photobiol.
35:593-595. CIW Publication No. 753.
Mandoli, D. F. and W. R. Briggs. 1982. Optical properties of etiolated plant tissues.
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 79:2902-2906. CIW Publication No. 771.
117.
Briggs, W. R. 1982. Photomorphogenesis. In: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and
Technology, 5th Edition, S. B. Parker, ed. pp. 222-225. CIW Publication No. 733.
118. Briggs, W. R., 1982. Phytochrome. In: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and
Technology, 5th Edition, S. B. Parker, ed. pp. 290-293. CIW Publication No. 732.
119. Gorton, H. L. and W. R. Briggs. 1982. A survey of the reciprocity characteristics of
responses to end-of-day irradiations in oat, sunflower, and mung bean. Plant, Cell
Environment 5:423-429. CIW Publication No. 758.
120. Leong, T.-Y. and W. R. Briggs. 1982. Evidence from studies with acifluorfen for
participation of a flavin-cytochrome complex in blue light photoreception for
phototropism of oat coleoptiles. Plant Physiol. 70:875-881. CIW Publication No.
765.
121. Hertel, R., T. Lomax, and W. R. Briggs. 1983. Auxin transport in membrane vesicles
from Cucurbita pepo L. Planta. 157:193-201. CIW Publication No. 779.
122. Britz, S. J. and W. R. Briggs. 1983. Rhythmic chloroplast migration in the green alga
Ulva: Dissection of movement mechanism by differential inhibitor effects. Eur. J.
Cell Biol. 31:1-8. CIW Publication No. 675.
123. Schaer, J. A., D. F. Mandoli, and W. R. Briggs. 1983. Phytochrome-mediated cellular
morphogenesis. Plant Physiol. 72:706-712. CIW Publication No. 798.
124. Blatt, M. R. and W. R. Briggs. 1983. Quantitative microphotometry at the cellular level:
a simple technique for measuring chloroplast movements in vivo. Photochem.
Photobiol. 8:347-353. CIW Publication No. 799.
124A. Blatt, M. R. and W. R. Briggs. 1984. A simple technique employing fiber
optics to measure chloroplast movements in single cells. Bioscience 34:178179. NOTE: A condensation of CIW Publication No. 799.
125. Mandoli, D. F. and W. R. Briggs. 1983. Physiology and optics of plant tissues. What's
New in Plant Physiology 14:13-16. CIW Publication No. 815.
126. Cooke, T. J., R. H. Racusen, and W. R. Briggs. 1983. Initial events in the tip-swelling
response of the filamentous gametophyte of Onoclea sensibilis L. to blue light.
Planta 159:300-307. CIW Publication No. 801.
127. Briggs, W. R. and M. Iino. 1983. Blue-light-absorbing photoreceptors in plants. Phil.
Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 303:347-359. CIW Publication No. 816
128. Shinkle, J. R. and W. R. Briggs. 1984. Auxin concentration/growth relationship for
Avena coleoptile sections from seedlings grown in complete darkness. Plant Physiol.
74:335-339. CIW Publication No. 825.
129. Iino, M., W. R. Briggs, and E. Schäfer. 1984. Phytochrome-mediated phototropism in
maize seedling shoots. Planta. 160:41- 51. CIW Publication No. 824.
130. Mandoli, D. F. and W. R. Briggs. 1984. Fiber-optic plant tissues: spectral dependence
in dark-grown and green tissues. Photochem. Photobiol. 39:419-424. CIW Publication
No. 789.
131. Iino, M. and W. R. Briggs. 1984. Growth distribution during first positive phototropic
curvature of maize coleoptiles. Plant Cell Environ. 7:97-104. CIW Publication No. 829.
132. McGee, H. J., S. Long, and W. R. Briggs. 1984. Why whip egg whites in copper bowls?
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7:72-73. CIW Publication No. 836.
Mandoli, D. F., J. Tepperman, E. Huala, and W. R. Briggs. 1984. Photobiology of
diagravitropic maize roots. Plant Physiol. 75:359-363. CIW Publication No. 833.
Kaufman, L. S., W. F. Thompson, and W. R. Briggs. 1984. Different red light
requirements for phytochrome-induced accumulation of cab RNA and rbcS RNA.
Science 226:1447-1449. CIW Publication No. 808.
Shinkle, J. A. and W. R. Briggs. 1984. Indole-3-acetic acid sensitization of
phytochrome-controlled growth of coleoptile sections.
Schäfer, E., M. Iino, and W. R. Briggs. 1984. Red light-induced shift of the
fluence-response curve for first positive phototropic curvature of maize coleoptiles. In:
Blue Light Effects in Biological Systems, H. Senger, ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp.
476-479. CIW Publication No. 834.
Iino, M., E. Schäfer, and W. R. Briggs. 1984. Photo-perception sites for
phytochrome-mediated phototropism of maize mesocotyls. Planta 162:477-479. CIW
Publication No. 854.
Kaufman, L. S., Briggs, W. R., and W. F. Thompson. 1985. Phytochrome control of
specific mRNA levels in developing pea buds. The presence of both very low fluence
and low fluence responses. Plant Physiol. 78:388-393. CIW Publication No. 866.
Mandoli, D. F. and W. R. Briggs. 1984. Fiber optics in plants. Sci. Amer. 251:90-98. CIW
Publication No. 899.
Briggs, W. R., D. F. Mandoli, J. R. Shinkle, L. S. Kaufman, J. C. Watson, and W. F.
Thompson. 1985. Phytochrome regulation of plant development at the whole plant,
physiological, and molecular levels. In: Sensory Perception and Transduction in
Aneural Organisms, G. Columbetti and P.-S. Song, eds. pp. 265-280. Plenum
Publishing Corporation, New York. CIW Publication No. 867.
Kaufman, L. S., J. C. Watson, W. R. Briggs, and W. F. Thompson. 1985. Photoregulation
of nucleus-encoded transcripts: blue-light regulation of specific transcript abundance.
In Molecular Biology of the Photosynthetic Apparatus, K. Steinback, C. J. Arntzen, L.
Bogorad, and S. Bonitz, eds., pp. 367-372, Cold Spring Harbor Press. CIW Publication
No. 848
Lomax, T., R. J. Mehlhorn, and W. R. Briggs. 1985. Active auxin uptake by zucchini
membrane vesicles: quantitation using ESR volume and DpH determinations. Proc.
Nat. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 82:6541-6545. CIW Publication No. 863.
Shinkle, J. R. and W. R. Briggs. 1985. Physiological mechanism of the auxin-induced
increase in light sensitivity of phytochrome-mediated growth responses in Avena
coleoptile sections. Plant Physiol. 79:349-356. CIW Publication No. 878.
Briggs, W. R. 1985. The Trails of Henry W. Coe State Park, Original Coe Ranch section,
47 pp. Pine Ridge Association, Henry W. Coe State Park, Morgan Hill, CA.
Baskin, T. I., M. Iino, P. B. Green, and W. R. Briggs. 1985. High-resolution
measurement of growth during first positive phototropism in maize. Plant, Cell
Environ. 8:595-603. CIW Publication No. 852.
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Koller, D., I. Levitan, and W. R. Briggs. 1985. The vectorial photo-excitation in
solar-tracking leaves of Lavatera cretica (Malvaceae). Photochem. Photobiol.
42:717-723. CIW Publication No. 879.
Koller, D., I. Levitan, and W. R. Briggs. 1985. Components of vectorial photo-excitation
in solar-tracking leaves of Lavatera cretica (Malvaceae). Physiol. Veg., 23:913-920.
CIW Publication No. 880.
Shinkle, J. R. and W. R. Briggs. 1986. Optimization of red light-induced elongation in
Avena coleoptile sections and properties of the phytochrome-mediated growth
response. Plant Cell Environ., 9:165-173. CIW Publication No. 896.
Baskin, T., W. R. Briggs, and M. Iino. 1986. Can lateral transport of auxin account for
first positive curvature of maize coleoptiles? Plant Physiol. 81:306-309. CIW
Publication No. 895.
Kaufman, L. S., L. L. Roberts, W. R. Briggs, and W. F. Thompson. 1986. Phytochrome
control of specific mRNA levels in developing pea buds: Kinetics of accumulation,
reciprocity, and escape kinetics of the low fluence response. Plant Physiol.
81:1033-1038. CIW Publication No. 901.
Schäfer, E. and W. R. Briggs. 1986. Photomorphogenesis from signal perception to
gene expression. Photobiochem. Photobiophys. 12:305-320. CIW Publication No. 910.
Feldman, L. J., and W. R. Briggs. 1987. Light-regulated gravitropism in seedling roots
of maize. Plant Physiol. 83:241-243. CIW Publication No. 960.
Briggs, W. R., Mösinger, E., Batchauer, A., Apel, K., and Schäfer, E. 1987. Molecular
events in photoregulated greening in barley leaves. In: Molecular Biology of Plant
Growth Control, UCLA Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology, New Series. Vol.
44, J. E. Fox and M. Jacobs, eds., Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York, pp. 413-423, CIW
Publication No. 934.
Spiller, S. C., L. S. Kaufman, W. F. Thompson, and W. R. Briggs. 1987. Specific mRNA
and rRNA levels during iron-initiated greening of chlorotic pea leaves. Plant
Physiology 84:409-414. CIW Publication No. 848.
Kutschera, U. and W. R. Briggs. 1987. Differential effect of auxin on in vivo
extensibility of cortical cylinder and epidermis in pea internodes. Plant Physiol.
84:1361-1366. CIW Publication No. 927.
Kutschera, U., and W. R. Briggs. 1987. Rapid auxin-induced stimulation of cell wall
synthesis in pea internodes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. 84:2747-2751. CIW
Publication No. 970
Briggs, W. R. 1987. How useful are molecular techniques in addressing physiological
problems in photomorphogenesis? In Phytochrome and Photoregulation In plants, M.
Furuya, ed. Academic Press, Tokyo, pp. 11-21. CIW Publication No. 974.
Britz, S. J. and W. R. Briggs. 1987. Chloroplast movement and light transmission in
Ulva: The sieve effect in a light-scattering system. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum.
9:149-162. CIW Publication No. 900.
Horwitz, B. A., W. F. Thompson, and W. R. Briggs. 1987. Phytochrome regulation of
greening in Pisum: chlorophyll accumulation and abundance of mRNA for the
light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b binding proteins. Plant Physiology. 86:299-305. CIW
Publication No. 968.
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in developing pea internodes. Plant Physiology. 86:306-311. CIW Publication No. 986.
Briggs, W. R. 1987. The molecular photophysiology of greening of etiolated pea
seedlings. In Plant Molecular Biology, D. von Wettstein and N.-H. Chua, eds., NATO ASI
Series A Vol. 140, Plenum Press, New York, pp. 41-51. CIW Publication No. 985.
Briggs, W. R. 1987. NATO Advanced Study Institute - Plant Molecular Biology 1987 June 10-19, 1987 - Meeting Review. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter. 5:353-356. CIW
Publication No. 994.
Briggs, W. R., E. Mösinger, and E. Schäfer. 1988. Phytochrome regulation of greening
in barley: Effects on chlorophyll accumulation. Plant Physiology. 86:435-440. CIW
Publication No. 971.
Mösinger, E., A. Batschauer, K. Apel, E. Schäfer, and W. R. Briggs. 1988.
Phytochrome regulation of greening in barley - effects on mRNA abundance and on
transcriptional activity of isolated nuclei. Plant Physiology. 86:706-710. CIW
Publication No. 977.
Kutschera, U. and W. R. Briggs. 1988. Interaction between cortical cylinder and
epidermis during IAA-mediated growth in pea internodes. Plant Sci. 54:23-28.. CIW
Publication No. 978.
Briggs, W. R. and T. I. Baskin. 1988. Phototropism in higher plants - controversies
and caveats. Botanica Acta. 101:133-139. CIW Publication No. 983.
Thompson, W. F., L. S. Kaufman, B. A. Horwitz, A. D. Sagar, and W. R. Briggs. 1988.
Patterns of phytochrome-induced gene expression in etiolated pea buds. In
Biomechanisms Regulating Growth and Development, Beltsville Symposia in
Agricultural Research 12, G. L. Steffens and T. S. Rumsey, eds. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp.
269-284. CIW Publication No. 988.
Gallagher, S., T. Short, L. H. Pratt, P. M. Ray, and W. R. Briggs. 1988. Light-induced
changes in two proteins found associated with plasma membrane fractions from pea
stem sections. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. 85:8003-8007. CIW Publication No. 1000.
Sagar, A., B. A. Horwitz, R. Elliott, W. F. Thompson, and W. R. Briggs. 1988. Light
effects on several chloroplast components in normal and norflurazon-treated pea
seedlings. Plant Physiol.. 88:340-347. CIW Publication No. 1010.
Oelmüller, R., P. B. Conley, N. A. Federspiel, W. R. Briggs, and A. R. Grossman. 1988.
Changes in accumulation and synthesis of transcripts encoding phycobilisome
components during acclimation of Fremyella diplosiphon to different light qualities.
Plant Physiol. 88:1077-1083. CIW Publication No. 1008.
Oelmüller, R., A. R. Grossman, and W. R. Briggs. 1988. Photore-versibility of the effect
of red and green light pulses on the accumu-lation in darkness of mRNAs coding for
phycocyanin and phycoerythrin in Fremyella diplosiphon. Plant Physiol. 88:1084-1091.
CIW Publication No. 1011.
Sagar, A., W. R. Briggs, and W. F. Thompson. 1988. Post-transcriptional regulation
of nuclear-cytoplasmic partitioning of phytochrome-sensitive transcripts in Pisum
sativum. Plant Physiol. 88:1397-1402. CIW Publication No. 1023.
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Laskowski, M. J. and W. R. Briggs. 1988. Regulation of pea epicotyl elongation by blue
light: kinetics, fluence-response relationships, and growth distribution. Plant Physiol.
88:293-298. CIW Publication No. 1012.
Bruns, B., W. R. Briggs, and A. R. Grossman. 1989. Molecular characterization of
phycobilisome regulatory mutants in Fremyella diplosiphon. J. Bacteriol. 171:901-908.
CIW Publication No. 1024.
Parker, K., T. I. Baskin, and W. R. Briggs. 1988. Evidence for a phytochrome-mediated
phototropism in etiolated pea seedlings. Plant Physiol. 89:493-497. CIW Publication
No. 1013.
Oelmüller, R., A. R. Grossman, and W. R. Briggs. 1989. Role of protein synthesis in
regulation of phycobiprotein mRNA abundance in Fremyella diplosiphon. Plant Physiol.
90:1486-1491. CIW Publication No. 1033.
Oelmüller, R., R. E. Kendrick, and W. R. Briggs. 1989. Blue light-mediated
accumulation of nuclear-encoded ranscripts coding for proteins of the thylakoid
membranes is absent in the labile phytochrome-deficient aurea mutant of tomato.
Plant Molecular Biology. 13:223-232. CIW Publication No. 1038.
Short, T. W. and W. R. Briggs. 1990. Characterization of a rapid, blue light- mediated
change in detectable phosphorylation of a plasma membrane protein from etiolated
pea (Pisum sativum L.) seedlings. Plant Physiol. 92:179-185. CIW Publication No.
1042.
Taylor, L. P. and W. R. Briggs. 1990. Genetic regulation and photocontrol of
anthocyanin accumulation in maize seedlings. Plant Cell. 2:115-127. CIW Publication
No. 1049.
Oelmüller, R. and W. R. Briggs. 1990. Intact plastids are required for nitrate-and
light-induced accumulation of nitrate reductase activity and mRNA in squash
cotyledons. Plant Physiol. 92:434-439. CIW Publication No. 1039.
Koller, D., T. Shak, and W. R. Briggs. 1989. Enhanced diaphototropic response to
vectorial excitation in solar-tracking leaves of Lavatera cretica by an immediately
preceding opposite vectorial excitation. J. Plant Physiol. 135:601-607. CIW Publication
No. 1048.
Mandoli, D. F., G. A. Ford, L. J. Waldron, J. A. Nemson, and W. R. Briggs. 1990. Some
spectral properties of several soil types: implications for photomorphogenesis. Plant
Cell Environ. 13:287-294. CIW Publication No. 858.
Koller, D., S. Ritter, W. R. Briggs, and E. Schäfer. 1990. Action dichroism in perception
of vectorial photo-excitation in the solar-tracking leaf of Lavatera Cretica L. Planta.
181:184-190. CIW Publication No. 1056.
Parker, K. E. and W. R. Briggs. 1990. The transport of indoleacetic acid in intact
maize coleoptiles. Plant Physiol. 94:417-423. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1061.
Short, T. W., S. Gallagher, and W. R. Briggs. 1990. Protein phosphorylation as a
possible signal transduction step for blue light-mediated phototropism in pea (Pisum
sativum L.) epicotyls. In: Current Topics in Plant Biochemistry and Physiology 9: Plant
Protein Phosphorylation, Protein Kinases, Calcium and Calmodulin, D. D. Randall and
D. G. Blevins, eds., University of Missouri-Columbia, pp. 232-248. CIW-DPB
Publication No. 1080.
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Sagar, A. D. and W. R. Briggs. 1990. Effects of high light stress on carotenoid-deficient
chloroplasts in Pisum sativum. Plant Physiology. 94:1663-1670. CIW Publication No.
1043.
Parker, K. E. and W. R. Briggs. 1990. Transport of indole-3-acetic acid during
gravitropism in intact maize coleoptiles. Plant Physiol. 94:1763-1769. CIW-DPB
Publication No. 1079.
Short, T. W., M. Laskowski, S. Gallagher, and W. R. Briggs. 1991. Signal transduction in
blue light-mediated growth responses. In Photobiology: The Science and its
Applications, E. Riklis, ed., Plenum, N.Y., pp. 615-624. CIW Publication No. 1031.
Briggs, W. R. and T. W. Short. 1991. The transduction of light signals in plants:
Responses to blue light. In: Phytochrome Properties and Biological Action, B. Thomas,
C. B. Johnson, eds., NATO ASI Series, Vol. H 50, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 289-301.
CIW-DPB Publication No. 1090.
Short, T. W., M. Porst, and W. R. Briggs. 1991. On the trail of the photoreceptor for
phototropism in higher plants. In: Biophysics of Photoreceptors and Photomovements
in Microorganisms, F. Lenci, F. Ghetti, G. Columbetti, D.-P. Häder, P.-S. Song, eds.,
NATO ASI Series, Vol. A 21, Plenum, New York pp. 173-180. CIW-DPB Publication No.
1092.
Warpeha, K. M. F., L. S. Kaufman, and W. R. Briggs. 1992. A flavoprotein may mediate
the blue light-activated binding of guanosine 5'-triphosphate to isolated plasma
membranes of Pisum sativum L. Photochem. Photobiol. 55: 595-603. CIW-DPB
Publication No. 1110.
Short, T. W., M. Porst, and W. R. Briggs. 1992. A photoreceptor system regulating in
vivo and in vitro phosphorylation of a pea plasma membrane protein. Photochem.
Photobiol. 55: 773-781. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1108.
Reymond, P., T. W. Short, W. R. Briggs, and K. L. Poff. 1992. Light-induced
phosphorylation of a membrane protein plays an early role in signal transduction for
phototropism in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 89: 4718-4721.
CIW-DPB Publication No. 1124.
Laskowski, M. J., E. Seradge, J. R. Shinkle and W. R. Briggs. 1992. Ethylene is not
involved in the blue light-induced growth inhibition of red light-grown peas. Plant
Physiol. 100: 95-99. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1088.
Briggs, W. R. 1992. What remains of the Cholodny-Went theory: It's alive and well in
maize. Plant Cell Environ. 15: 763 CIW-DPB Publication No. 1226.
Reymond, P., T. W. Short, and W. R. Briggs. 1992. Blue light activates a specific protein
kinase in higher plants. Plant Physiol. 100: 655-661. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1132.
Kubasic, W. L., B. W. Shirley, A. McKillop, H. M. Goodman, F. M. Ausubel and W. R.
Briggs. 1992. Regulation of flavonoid biosynthetic genes in germinating Arabidopsis
seedlings. The Plant Cell. 4: 1229-1236. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1138.
Short, T. W., P. Reymond, and W. R. Briggs. 1993. A pea plasma membrane protein
exhibiting blue light-induced phosphorylation retains photosensitivity following triton
solubization. Plant Physiol. 101: 647-655. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1152.
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Warpeha, K. M. F. and W. R. Briggs. 1993. Blue light-induced phosphorylation of a
plasma membrane protein in pea: A step in the signal transduction chain for
phototropism. Aust. J. Plant Physiol. 20: 393-403. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1156.
Palmer, J. M., T. W. Short, S. Gallagher, and W. R. Briggs. 1993. Blue light-induced
phosphorylation of a plasma membrane-associated protein in Zea mays L. Plant
Physiol. 102: 1211-1218. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1159.
Palmer, J. M., T. W. Short, and W. R. Briggs. 1993. Correlation of blue light-induced
phosphorylation to phototropism in Zea mays L. Plant Physiol. 102: 1219-1225.
CIW-DPB Publication No. 1160.
Briggs, W. R. 1993. New light on stem growth. Nature 366: 110-111. CIW-DPB
Publication No. 1196.
Short, T. W., M. Porst, J. Palmer, E. Fernbach, and W. R. Briggs. 1994. Blue light
induces phosphorylation at seryl residues on a pea (Pisum sativum L.) plasma
membrane protein. Plant Physiol. 104: 1317-1324. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1104.
Short, T. W., and W. R. Briggs. 1994. The transduction of blue light signals in higher
plants. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 45: 143-171. CIW-DPB Publication No.
1200
Hasunuma, K., T. Hamada, and W. R. Briggs. 1994. Molecular analysis of phytochrome
mediated in vivo signal transmission in etiolated pea seedlings. J. Photochem.
Photobiol. B: Biol. 23: 245-251.
Quail, P. H., W. R. Briggs, J. Chory, R. P. Hangarter, N. P. Harberd, R. E. Kendrick, M.
Koornneef, B. Parks, E. Schäfer, W. F. Thompson, and G. C. Whitlam. 1994. Spotlight
on phytochrome nomenclature. Plant Cell 6: 468-471. CIW-DPW Publication No.
1242.
White, M. J., L. S. Kaufman, B. A. Horwitz, W. R. Briggs, and W. F. Thompson. 1994.
Individual members of the Cab gene family differ widely in fluence response. Plant
Physiol. 107: 161-165. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1220.
Liscum, E. and W. R. Briggs. 1995. Mutations in the NPH1 locus of Arabidopsis disrupt
the perception of phototropic stimuli. Plant Cell. 7: 473-485. CIW-DPB Publication No.
1256.
Asard, H., N. Horemans, W. R. Briggs, and R. J. Caubergs. (1995). Blue light perception
by endogenous redox components of the plant plasma membrane. Photochem.
Photobiol. 61: 518-522. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1241.
Rüdiger, W. and W. R. Briggs. 1995. Involvement of thiol groups in blue light-induced
phosphorylation of a plasma membrane-associated protein from coleoptile tips of
Zea mays L. Z. Naturforsch. 50c: 231-234. CIW DPB Publication No. 1257.
Briggs, Winslow R. 1996. Light and the genesis of form in plants. In Regulation of
Plant Growth and Development by Light, eds. W. R. Briggs, R. L. Heath, and E. M.
Tobin, American Society of Plant Physiologists. Pp. 1-8. CIW-DPB Publication No.
1304.
Palmer, J. M., K. M. F. Warpeha, and W. R. Briggs. 1996. Evidence that zeaxanthin is
not the photoreceptor for phototropism in maize coleoptiles. Plant Physiol. 110:
1323-1328. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1252.
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Briggs, W. R., E. Liscum III, P. Oeller, and J. M. Palmer. Photomorphogenic Systems.
1996. In: Light as an Energy Source and Information Carrier in Plant Physiology, R. C.
Jennings, G. Zucchelli, F. Ghetti, G. Columbetti, eds. Plenum, New York. Pp. 159-167.
CIW-DPB Publication Number 1243.
Liscum, E. and W. R. Briggs. 1996. Mutations of Arabidopsis in potential transduction
and response components of the phototropic signaling pathway. Plant Physiol. 112:
291-296. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1287.
W. R. Briggs and E. Liscum. 1996. Blue light-activated signal transduction in higher
plants. In Signal Transduction in Plants, ed. P. Aducci. Birkhauser Verlag, Basel,
Switzerland. Pp. 107-135. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1289.
Briggs, W. R. and E. Liscum. 1997. The Role of Mutants in the search for the
photoreceptor for phototropism in higher plants. Plant Cell Environ. 20: 768-772,
1997. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1338.
Huala, E., P. W. Oeller, E. Liscum, I.-S. Han, E. Larsen, and W. R. Briggs. 1997.
Arabidopsis NPH1: A protein kinase with a putative redox-sensing domain. Science
278: 2120-2123. C. I. W. Publication No. 1349.
Zacherl, M., E. Huala, W. Rüdiger, W. R. Briggs, and M. Salomon. 1998. Isolation and
characterization of cDNAs from oat encoding a serine/threonine kinase: An early
component in signal transduction for phototropism (Accession Nos. AF033096 and
AF033097). Plant Physiol. (Plant Gene Register) 116: 869.
Christie, J. M., P. Reymond, G. Powell, P. Bernasconi, Andrei A. Reibekas, E. Liscum,
and W. R. Briggs. 1998. Arabidopsis NPH1: a flavoprotein with the properties of a
photoreceptor for phototropism. Science 282: 1698-1701. CIW-DPB Publication No.
1380.
Briggs, W. R. Discovery of Phytochrome. 1999. In Discoveries in Plant Biology, Vol. 2,
eds. S.-D Kung and S.-F. Yang. World Scientific Publishing, Hong Kong. Pp. 115-135.
CIW-DPB Publication No. 1369.
Peer, W. A., W. R. Briggs, and J. H. Langenheim. 1999. Shade-avoidance responses in
two common coastal redwood forest species, Sequoia sempervirens (Taxodiaceae)
and Satureja douglasii (Lamiaceae), occurring in various light environments. Am. J.
Botany 86: 640-645. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1399.
Lascève, G. L., J. Leymarie, A. Vavasseur, E. Liscum III, M. Olney, and W. R. Briggs. 1999.
Arabidopsis contains at least four independent blue light-activated
signal-transduction pathways. Plant Physiol. 120: 605-614. CIW-DPB Publication No.
1337.
Christie, J. M., M. Salomon, K. Nozue, M. Wada, and W. R. Briggs. 1999. LOV (light,
oxygen, or voltage) domains of the blue-light photoreceptor, phototropin (nph1):
binding sites for the chromophore flavin mononucleotide. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 96:
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Briggs, W. R. and M. A. Olney. 2001. Photoreceptors in plant photomorphogenesis to
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Briggs, W. R., and J. M. Christie. 2002. Phototropins 1 and 2: Two versatile plant
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Swartz, T. E., P. J. Wenzel, S. B. Corchnoy, W. R. Briggs, and R. A. Bogomolni. 2002.
Vibration spectroscopy reveals light-induced chromophore and protein structural
changes in the LOV2 domain of the plant blue-light receptor phototropin.
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2002. Photochemical properties of the flavin mononucleotide-binding domains of the
phototropins from Arabidopsis, rice, and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Physiol.
129: 762-773. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1500.
Sakamoto, K., and W. R. Briggs. 2002. Cellular and subcellular localization of
phototropin 1. Plant Cell 14: 1723-1735. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1542.
Christie, J. M., T. E. Swartz, R. A. Bogomolni, and W. R. Briggs. 2002. Phototropin LOV
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phototropin 1. Biochemistry 278: 724-731. CIW-DPB Publication No. 1551.
Larsen. E. S., M. R. Alfenito, W. R. Briggs, and V. Walbot. 2003. A carnation
anthocyanin mutant is complemented by the glutathione S-transferase encoded by
maize Bz2 and petunia Ann Plant Cell Rep. 21: 900-904. CIW-DPB Publication No.
1630.
Imaizumi, T., H. G. Tran, T. E. Swartz, W. R. Briggs, and S. A. Kay. 2003. FKF1 is essential
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Briggs, W. R. 2005. Blue-UV-A receptors: Historical Overview. In:
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Briggs, W. R. 2005. Phototropin overview. In: Light Sensing in Plants, M. Wada, K.
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Swartz, T. E., H. G. Tran, S. A. Kay, W. R. Briggs, and R. Bogomolni. 2005. LOV-domain
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Briggs, W. R. 2005. Epilogue: Eighteen years of progress in photomorphogenesis. In:
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Christie, J. M. and W. R. Briggs. 2005. Blue light sensing and signaling by the
phototropins. In: Handbook of Photosensory Receptors (W. R. Briggs and J. L. Spudich,
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Briggs, W. R. (2005) Coe kaleidoscope: A year of colors on Pine Ridge. Bay Nature 5
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Briggs, W. R. 2006. Physiology of plant responses to artificial lighting. In: Ecological
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Briggs, W. R. 2006. Flavin-based photoreceptors in plants, in: Flavins Photochemistry
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Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, Donat-Peter Häder, Giulio Jori (Series
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Cho, Hae-young, T.-S Tseng, E. Kaiserli, S. Sullivan, J. M. Christie, and W. R. Briggs.
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Briggs, W. R. 2007. The LOV domain: A chromophore module servicing multiple
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Christie, J. M., S. Corchnoy, T. E. Swartz, M. Hokenson, I.-S. Han, W. R. Briggs, and R. A.
Bogomolni. 2007. Steric interactions stabilize adduct formation in the LOV2 domain of
phototropin 1. Biochemistry, 46: 9310-9319.
Swartz, T. E., T.-S. Tseng, M. A. Frederickson, G. Paris, D. J. Comerci, G. Rajeshekara,
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Bogomolni. 2007. Blue light-activated histidine kinases: two-component sensors in
bacteria. Science, 317: 1090-1093.
Wan, Y-L., W. Eisinger, D. Ehrhardt, F. Baluska, and W. Briggs. 2008. The subcellular
localization and blue light-induced movement of phototropin1-GFP in etiolated
seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol. Plant 1: online Nov. 2, 2007; Mol. Plant 1:
103-117.
Ribas-Carbo, M., L. Giles, J. Flexas, W. Briggs, and J. Berry. (2008) Phytochrome-driven
changes in respiratory electron transport partitioning in soybean (Glycine max L.)
cotyledons. Plant Biol. 10: 281-287.
Luan, S., X.-Y Chen, N. Raikhel, and W. R. Briggs (2008) Forward: A new ‘silk road’ for
a new era of plant science. Mol. Plant 1: 1.
Briggs, W. R. (2008) In the light of day: Plant Photomorphogenesis. Mol. Plant 1: 2-3.
Briggs, W. Dov Koller. American Society of Plant Biologists News 35: 30.
Han, I.-S, W. Eisinger, T.-S. Tseng, and W. R. Briggs, 2008. Phytochrome A regulates the
intracellular distribution of phototropin1-green fluorescent protein in Arabidopsis
thaliana. Plant Cell 20: 2835-2847.
Briggs, W. R. and C. Lin. 2008. Introduction to the symposium-in-print on
photosynthesis. Photochem. Photobiol. 84: 1300-1301.
Tong, H., C. D. Leasure, X. Hou, G. Yuen, W. R. Briggs, Z.-H. He (2008). Role of root
UV-B sensing in Arabidopsis early seedling development. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A.
106: 21039-21044.
Tseng, T.-S. and W. R. Briggs. (2009). The Arabidopsis rcn1 mutation confers impaired
dephosphorylation of Phot2 resulting in enhanced blue-light responses. Submitted to
Plant Cell.