Light is an environmental signal that plays important roles in regulating growth and development of plants during their entire life cycle.The research of light signaling transduction has a history of more than one hundred years and has always been the hot field in plant biology.This review paper mainly sum-marized important progresses in the area of light signaling transduction of the past ten years,including the light signaling pathways of phytochromes,cryptochromes,and ultraviolet-B photoreceptor,the com-mon regulatory mechanisms of the signaling pathways,the cross-talk between light and endogenous hor-monal signals as well as the other environmental signals,and photomorphogenesis in crops.