Table 1.

Real and putative light signaling components in Neurospora crassa

NCU #1	Gene	Light-sensing chromophore	TF?	Light-related or other phenotypes in mutants	Light-responsive2	Refs
NCU02356.2	wc-1	FAD	Yes	Blind to most if not all light responses, carotenogenesis repressed in mycelia	+	2–8
NCU00902.2	wc-2	None	Yes	Blind to most if not all light responses, carotenogenesis repressed in mycelia	No	2–8
NCU03967.2	vvd	FAD	No	Affects photoadaptation, excess accumulation of carotenoids	+ + +	8, 18–21
NCU04834.2	phy-1	Undetermined	No	Wild-type light responses, k/o wild-type	No	8, 28
NCU05790.2	phy-2	Biliverdin or Phycocyanobilin	No	Wild-type light responses, k/o wild-type	No	8, 28
NCU00582.2	cry	FAD	No	Wild-type light responses, k/o wild-type	+ + +	8, 29
NCU10055.2	nop-1	Retinal	No	Wild-type light responses, involved in late-stage asexual development	No	8, 31–33
NCU02265.2	frq	None	No	Affects amplitude of light induced gene expression	+	8, 34, 35
NCU01154.2	sub-1	None	Yes	Affects some early and most late light responses, submerged protoperithecia in the sexual cycle	+	8, 36
NCU02713.2	csp-1	None	Yes	Wild-type light responses, defective in conidiospore maturation	+	8, 37
NCU04179.2	sah-1	None	Yes	Wild-type light responses, shortened aerial hyphae	+	8, 36
NCU06407.2	vad-3	None	Yes	Wild-type light responses, slowed basal and aerial hyphal extension	+	8, 36
NCU03643.2	None	None	Yes	Wild-type light responses, k/o wild-type	+	8
NCU01731.3	ve-1	None	No	Wild-type light responses, shortened aerial hyphae, increased conidiation	No	40

¹NCU numbers are from Neurospora annotation (http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/genome/neurospora/Home.html).

²Fold change of mRNA transcripts in response to a white light stimulus; +, less than 10-fold; + +, 10-∼100-fold; + + +, more than 100-fold. The data adapted from ref. 8.