Table I. Some useful multicolored FP probes for visualizing the nucleus and subnuclear components in living plant cells.
C, Cyan; G, green; Y, yellow; R, red; X, many different colors.
| Target | FP Color | Fusion with | Reference |
| Nucleus | G | NLS-sGFP::GUS | Grebenok et al. (1997) |
| Minimal NLS from c2 polypeptide of tobacco, fusion to GUS prevents size-related diffusion from the nucleus | Chytilova et al. (1999) | ||
| Y | Histone H2B | ||
| C-terminal fusion to the full-length cDNA of the Arabidopsis H2B gene | Boisnard-Lorig et al. (2001) | ||
| G/R | PopP2 | ||
| N-terminal fusion to the full-length genomic PopP2 gene of Ralstonia solanacearum | Deslandes et al. (2003) | ||
| G/Y | HTA6 (histone H2A) | ||
| C-terminal fusion to the full-length cDNA of the Arabidopsis HTA6 gene | Zhang et al. (2005) | ||
| Y/C | pAtHB8-NLS-YFP and pAtHB8-CFP-NLS promoter region of AtHB8 (1,997 bp upstream of ORF) and SV40 NLS | Sawchuk et al. (2007) | |
| G | LeMAF1-GFP-LeMAF1 | ||
| Full-length cDNA of the Lycopersicon esculentum (cv VFNT cherry) MFP1 associated factor1 (MAF1) gene | Gindullis et al. (1999) | ||
| G | SM40::GFP | ||
| C-terminal fusion of Mammalian simian virus 40 large T-antigen nuclearlocalization signal (amino acid residues 126–132) | Chiu et al. (1996) | ||
| Nuclear envelope | G | AtRAN-GAP1 | |
| C-terminal fusion to the full-length cDNA of Arabidopsis RanGTPase-activating protein1 (RAN-GAP1) | Rose and Meier (2001) | ||
| G | RAN-GAP1 and RAN-GAP2 | ||
| C-terminal fusion to the full-length cDNA of Arabidopsis RanGTPase-activating protein1(RAN-GAP1) and RAN-GAP2 | Pay et al. (2002) | ||
| G | Lamin B receptor | ||
| C-terminal fusion to the first 238 amino acids of the Homo sapiens Lamin B receptor | Irons et al. (2003) | ||
| G | AtSad1a and AtSad1b | ||
| C-terminal fusion to the full-length cDNA of Arabidopsis Sad1a and b genes | Van Damme et al. (2004) | ||
| G | MOS3 | ||
| C-terminal fusion to the full-length cDNA of Arabidopsis MOS3 (MOFIDIER OF SNC1) | Zhang and Li (2005) | ||
| G | AtSUN1 (Sad1/UNC84) | Graumann et al. (2010) | |
| AtSUN2 | Graumann and Evans (2011) | ||
| Nuclear pores | G | Nup136/Nup1 | |
| C-terminal fusion to the genomic and full-length cDNA of Arabidopsis Nup136 | Tamura et al. (2010); Tamura and Hara-Nishimura (2011) | ||
| Nucleolus | G | AtFbr1::smGFP | |
| C-terminal fusion to the full-length cDNA of Arabidopsis FIBRILLARIN1 | Pih et al. (2000) | ||
| G | Nop10 (At2g20490) | Lorković et al. (2004) | |
| Cajal bodies | G | U2B” (At2g30260) | Boudonck et al. (1999) |
| G | ORF3 | Kim et al. (2007) | |
| AtCoilin | Kim et al. (2007) | ||
| Nuclear bodies/speckles | G/R | Arabidopsis CRYPTOCHROME 2 (CRY2-At1g04400) | Yu et al. (2009) |
| X | Different SR proteins | Lorković et al. (2004) | |
| G | COP1 (At2g32950) | Wang et al. (2001); Yang et al. (2001) | |
| Chromatin | G | LIKE HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN1 (LHP1: At5g17690) | Libault et al. (2005); Zemach et al. (2006) |
| Heterochromatin | G | Heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1γ human) | Fass et al. (2002) |
| Euchromatin | G | Arabidopsis histone deacetylase 1 (AF014824) | Fong et al. (2006) |
| Centromere | G | Polydactyl zinc finger (PZF) DNA binding domains | Lindhout et al. (2007) |
| G | Histone3 (HTR12; At1g01370) | Fang and Spector (2005) | |
| C | Histone 2B (HTB1:At1g07790) | Fang and Spector (2005) | |
| Y | Histone H3 (CENH3) | Moraes et al. (2011); Ingouff et al. (2007, 2010) |