Tenets of Magnetoreception: Cryptochrome as a promising player

Abstract

Living organisms are constantly being impacted by the Geomagnetic field (GMF), which is known to affect a number of biological processes, and for plants on Earth, it is an inevitable environmental factor. Several hypotheses have been proposed by scientists to explain the mechanism of magnetoreception, but none have received widespread acceptance. The magnetite-based concept, the radical pair model, and the ion-interference mechanism are only a few of the mechanisms that have been proposed in recent years to answer the riddle of animal magnetoreception from various perspectives. It has been proposed that Cryptochromes may function as magnetoreceptors since the physiological processes of CRY, such as growth inhibition, seedling de-etiolation, or blooming initiation, have been demonstrated to respond to mild magnetic fields. This review provides insights into various theories on magnetoreception and also includes a bibliometric analysis of literature on “cryptochrome and magnetism.”