Blue light–tuned selective autophagy: CRY1 intercepts ATG8 to protect HY5

Sunlight not only provides energy for plant photosynthesis but also serves as a signal regulating various aspects of plant growth and development.Plants perceive different wavelengths, intensities, and directions of light through multiple photoreceptors, enabling them to adopt distinct growth and developmental strategies to adjust to diverse light environments (de Wit et al., 2016).The Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) blue light receptor CRY1 is localized in both the cytoplasm and nucleus and plays a key role in regulating photomorphogenesis.CRY1 promotes photomorphogenesis by interacting via