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Panter PE, Muranaka T, Cuitun-Coronado D, Graham CA, Yochikawa A, Kudoh H, Dodd AN. Circadian Regulation of the Plant Transcriptome Under Natural Conditions. Front Genet 2019; 10:1239. [PMID: 31850080 PMCID: PMC6895068 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2019.01239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2019] [Accepted: 11/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Circadian rhythms produce a biological measure of the time of day. In plants, circadian regulation forms an essential adaptation to the fluctuating environment. Most of our knowledge of the molecular aspects of circadian regulation in plants is derived from laboratory experiments that are performed under controlled conditions. However, it is emerging that the circadian clock has complex roles in the coordination of the transcriptome under natural conditions, in both naturally occurring populations of plants and in crop species. In this review, we consider recent insights into circadian regulation under natural conditions. We examine how circadian regulation is integrated with the acute responses of plants to the daily and seasonally fluctuating environment that also presents environmental stresses, in order to coordinate the transcriptome and dynamically adapt plants to their continuously changing environment.
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- Paige E. Panter
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Otsu, Japan
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Adhikari ND, Simko I, Mou B. Phenomic and Physiological Analysis of Salinity Effects on Lettuce. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2019; 19:E4814. [PMID: 31694293 PMCID: PMC6864466 DOI: 10.3390/s19214814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2019] [Revised: 10/23/2019] [Accepted: 11/01/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Salinity is a rising concern in many lettuce-growing regions. Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) is sensitive to salinity, which reduces plant biomass, and causes leaf burn and early senescence. We sought to identify physiological traits important in salt tolerance that allows lettuce adaptation to high salinity while maintaining its productivity. Based on previous salinity tolerance studies, one sensitive and one tolerant genotype each was selected from crisphead, butterhead, and romaine, as well as leaf types of cultivated lettuce and its wild relative, L. serriola L. Physiological parameters were measured four weeks after transplanting two-day old seedlings into 350 mL volume pots filled with sand, hydrated with Hoagland nutrient solution and grown in a growth chamber. Salinity treatment consisted of gradually increasing concentrations of NaCl and CaCl2 from 0 mM/0 mM at the time of transplanting, to 30 mM/15 mM at the beginning of week three, and maintaining it until harvest. Across the 10 genotypes, leaf area and fresh weight decreased 0-64% and 16-67%, respectively, under salinity compared to the control. Salinity stress increased the chlorophyll index by 4-26% in the cultivated genotypes, while decreasing it by 5-14% in the two wild accessions. Tolerant lines less affected by elevated salinity were characterized by high values of the chlorophyll fluorescence parameters Fv/Fm and instantaneous photosystem II quantum yield (QY), and lower leaf transpiration.
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- Neil D. Adhikari
- Crop Improvement and Protection Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Salinas, CA 93905, USA;
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- Crop Improvement and Protection Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Salinas, CA 93905, USA;
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Zhang Y, Bo C, Wang L. Novel Crosstalks between Circadian Clock and Jasmonic Acid Pathway Finely Coordinate the Tradeoff among Plant Growth, Senescence and Defense. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20215254. [PMID: 31652760 PMCID: PMC6862349 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20215254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2019] [Revised: 10/16/2019] [Accepted: 10/17/2019] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Circadian clock not only functions as a cellular time-keeping mechanism, but also acts as a master regulator to coordinate the tradeoff between plant growth and defense in higher plants by timing a few kinds of phytohormone biosynthesis and signaling, including jasmonic acid (JA). Notably, circadian clock and JA pathway have recently been shown to intertwine with each other to ensure and optimize the plant fitness in an ever-changing environment. It has clearly demonstrated that there are multiple crosstalk pathways between circadian clock and JA at both transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. In this scenario, circadian clock temporally modulates JA-mediated plant development events, herbivory resistance and susceptibility to pathogen. By contrast, the JA signaling regulates clock activity in a feedback manner. In this review, we summarized the cross networks between circadian clock and JA pathway at both transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. We proposed that the novel crosstalks between circadian clock and JA pathway not only benefit for the understanding the JA-associated circadian outputs including leaf senescence, biotic, and abiotic defenses, but also put timing as a new key factor to investigate JA pathway in the future.
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- Yuanyuan Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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Takeshima R, Nishio T, Komatsu S, Kurauchi N, Matsui K. Identification of a gene encoding polygalacturonase expressed specifically in short styles in distylous common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum). Heredity (Edinb) 2019; 123:492-502. [PMID: 31076649 PMCID: PMC6781162 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-019-0227-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2018] [Accepted: 04/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) is a heteromorphic self-incompatible (SI) species with two types of floral architecture: thrum (short style) and pin (long style). The floral morphology and intra-morph incompatibility are controlled by a single genetic locus, S. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the heteromorphic self-incompatibility of common buckwheat remain unclear. To identify these mechanisms, we performed proteomic, quantitative reverse-transcription PCR, and linkage analyses. Comparison of protein profiles between the long and short styles revealed a protein unique to the short style. Amino-acid sequencing revealed that it was a truncated form of polygalacturonase (PG); we designated the gene encoding this protein FePG1. Phylogenetic analysis classified FePG1 into the same clade as PGs that function in pollen development and floral morphology. FePG1 expression was significantly higher in short styles than in long styles. It was expressed in flowers of a short-homostyle line but not in flowers of a long-homostyle line. Linkage analysis indicated that FePG1 was not linked to the S locus; it could be a factor downstream of this locus. Our finding of a gene putatively working under the regulation of the S locus provides useful information for elucidation of the mechanism of heteromorphic self-incompatibility.
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- Ryoma Takeshima
- Institute of Crop Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Kannondai 2-1-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8518, Japan
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- Institute of Crop Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Kannondai 2-1-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8518, Japan
- Department of Environmental and Food Sciences, Fukui University of Technology, Gakuen 3-6-1, Fukui, 910-8505, Japan
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- College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, 1866, Kameino, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, 252-0880, Japan
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- Institute of Crop Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Kannondai 2-1-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8518, Japan.
- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Science, University of Tsukuba, Kannondai 2-1-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8518, Japan.
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An J, Niu H, Ni Y, Jiang Y, Zheng Y, He R, Li J, Jiao Z, Zhang J, Li H, Li Q, Niu J. The miRNA-mRNA Networks Involving Abnormal Energy and Hormone Metabolisms Restrict Tillering in a Wheat Mutant dmc. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:E4586. [PMID: 31533225 PMCID: PMC6770018 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20184586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2019] [Revised: 09/14/2019] [Accepted: 09/15/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Tillers not only determine plant architecture but also influence crop yield. To explore the miRNA regulatory network restraining tiller development in a dwarf-monoculm wheat mutant (dmc) derived from Guomai 301 (wild type, WT), we employed miRNome and transcriptome integrative analysis, real-time qRT-PCR, histochemistry, and determinations of the key metabolites and photosynthesis parameters. A total of 91 differentially expressed miRNAs (DEMs) were identified between dmc and WT. Among them, 40 key DEMs targeted 45 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) including the key DEGs encode growth-regulating factors (GRF), auxin response factors (ARF), and other proteins involved in the metabolisms of hormones and carbohydrates, etc. Compared with WT, both the chlorophyll contents and the photosynthesis rate were lower in dmc. The contents of glucose, sucrose, fructose, and maltose were lower in dmc. The contents of auxin (IAA) and zeatin (ZA) were significantly lower, but gibberellin (GA) was significantly higher in the tiller tissues of dmc. This research demonstrated that the DEMs regulating hormone and carbohydrate metabolisms were important causes for dmc to not tiller. A primary miRNA-mRNA regulatory model for dmc tillering was established. The lower photosynthesis rate, insufficient energy, and abnormal hormone metabolisms restrict tillering in dmc.
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- Junhang An
- National Centre of Engineering and Technological Research for Wheat/Key Laboratory of Physiological Ecology and Genetic Improvement of Food Crops in Henan Province, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
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- Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang 455000, China.
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- Shangqiu Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Shangqiu 476000, China.
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- National Centre of Engineering and Technological Research for Wheat/Key Laboratory of Physiological Ecology and Genetic Improvement of Food Crops in Henan Province, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
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- National Centre of Engineering and Technological Research for Wheat/Key Laboratory of Physiological Ecology and Genetic Improvement of Food Crops in Henan Province, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
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- National Centre of Engineering and Technological Research for Wheat/Key Laboratory of Physiological Ecology and Genetic Improvement of Food Crops in Henan Province, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
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- National Centre of Engineering and Technological Research for Wheat/Key Laboratory of Physiological Ecology and Genetic Improvement of Food Crops in Henan Province, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
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- National Centre of Engineering and Technological Research for Wheat/Key Laboratory of Physiological Ecology and Genetic Improvement of Food Crops in Henan Province, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
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- National Centre of Engineering and Technological Research for Wheat/Key Laboratory of Physiological Ecology and Genetic Improvement of Food Crops in Henan Province, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
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- National Centre of Engineering and Technological Research for Wheat/Key Laboratory of Physiological Ecology and Genetic Improvement of Food Crops in Henan Province, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
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- National Centre of Engineering and Technological Research for Wheat/Key Laboratory of Physiological Ecology and Genetic Improvement of Food Crops in Henan Province, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
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- National Centre of Engineering and Technological Research for Wheat/Key Laboratory of Physiological Ecology and Genetic Improvement of Food Crops in Henan Province, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
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Yamaura S, Yamauchi Y, Makihara M, Yamashino T, Ishikawa A. CCA1 and LHY contribute to nonhost resistance to Pyricularia oryzae (syn. Magnaporthe oryzae) in Arabidopsis thaliana. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2019; 84:76-84. [PMID: 31478783 DOI: 10.1080/09168451.2019.1660612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The circadian clock enables plants to adapt to their environment and control numerous physiological processes, including plant-pathogen interactions. However, it is unknown if the circadian clock controls nonhost resistance (NHR) in plants. To find out, we analyzed microarray data with the web-based tool DIURNAL to reveal that NHR-related genes show rhythmic expression patterns in the absence of a pathogen challenge. Our clock mutant analyses found that cca1-1 lhy-11 double mutant showed compromised NHR to Pyricularia oryzae, suggesting that two components of the circadian clock, CCA1 and LHY, are involved in regulating penetration resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana. By analyzing pen2 double mutants, we revealed that CCA1 contributes to time-of-day-dependent penetration resistance as a positive regulator and that LHY regulates post-penetration resistance as a positive regulator. Taken together, our results suggest that the circadian clock regulates the time-of-day-dependent NHR to P. oryzae and thus enables A. thaliana to counteract pathogen attacks.Abbreviations: EE: evening element; ETI: effector-triggered immunity; NHR: nonhost resistance; PAMP: pathogen-associated molecular pattern; PTI: PAMP-triggered immunity; SAR: systemic acquired resistance.
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- Saaya Yamaura
- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Fukui Prefectural University, Fukui, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Fukui Prefectural University, Fukui, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Fukui Prefectural University, Fukui, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Functional Genomics, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Fukui Prefectural University, Fukui, Japan
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The circadian oscillator is a complex network of interconnected feedback loops that regulates a wide range of physiological processes. Indeed, variation in clock genes has been implicated in an array of plant environmental adaptations, including growth regulation, photoperiodic control of flowering, and responses to abiotic and biotic stress. Although the clock is buffered against the environment, maintaining roughly 24-h rhythms across a wide range of conditions, it can also be reset by environmental cues such as acute changes in light or temperature. These competing demands may help explain the complexity of the links between the circadian clock network and environmental response pathways. Here, we discuss our current understanding of the clock and its interactions with light and temperature-signaling pathways. We also describe different clock gene alleles that have been implicated in the domestication of important staple crops.
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- Nicky Creux
- Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
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Marshall-Colón A, Kliebenstein DJ. Plant Networks as Traits and Hypotheses: Moving Beyond Description. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 24:840-852. [PMID: 31300195 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2019.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2019] [Revised: 05/31/2019] [Accepted: 06/04/2019] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Biology relies on the central thesis that the genes in an organism encode molecular mechanisms that combine with stimuli and raw materials from the environment to create a final phenotypic expression representative of the genomic programming. While conceptually simple, the genotype-to-phenotype linkage in a eukaryotic organism relies on the interactions of thousands of genes and an environment with a potentially unknowable level of complexity. Modern biology has moved to the use of networks in systems biology to try to simplify this complexity to decode how an organism's genome works. Previously, biological networks were basic ways to organize, simplify, and analyze data. However, recent advances are allowing networks to move beyond description and become phenotypes or hypotheses in their own right. This review discusses these efforts, like mapping responses across biological scales, including relationships among cellular entities, and the direct use of networks as traits or hypotheses.
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- Amy Marshall-Colón
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA; DynaMo Center of Excellence, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
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Grinevich DO, Desai JS, Stroup KP, Duan J, Slabaugh E, Doherty CJ. Novel transcriptional responses to heat revealed by turning up the heat at night. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2019; 101:1-19. [PMID: 31062216 PMCID: PMC6695350 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-019-00873-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2019] [Accepted: 04/11/2019] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE The circadian clock controls many molecular activities, impacting experimental interpretation. We quantify the genome-wide effects of time-of-day on the heat-shock response and the effects of "diurnal bias" in stress experiments. Heat stress has significant adverse effects on plant productivity worldwide. Most experiments examining heat stress are performed during daytime hours, generating a 'diurnal bias' in the pathways and regulatory mechanisms identified. Such bias may confound downstream interpretations and limit our understanding of the full response to heat stress. Here we show that the transcriptional and physiological responses to a sudden heat shock in Arabidopsis are profoundly sensitive to the time of day. We observe that plant tolerance and acclimation to heat shock vary throughout the day and are maximal at dusk. Consistently, over 75% of heat-responsive transcripts show a time of day-dependent response, including many previously characterized heat-response genes. This temporal sensitivity implies a complex interaction between time and temperature where daily variations in basal transcription influence thermotolerance. When we examined these transcriptional responses, we uncovered novel night-response genes and cis-regulatory elements, underpinning new aspects of heat stress responses not previously appreciated. Exploiting this temporal variation can be applied to most environmental responses to understand the underlying network wiring. Therefore, we propose that using time as a perturbagen is an approach that will enhance our understanding of plant regulatory networks and responses to environmental stresses.
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- Dmitry O. Grinevich
- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
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Belbin FE, Hall GJ, Jackson AB, Schanschieff FE, Archibald G, Formstone C, Dodd AN. Plant circadian rhythms regulate the effectiveness of a glyphosate-based herbicide. Nat Commun 2019; 10:3704. [PMID: 31420556 PMCID: PMC6697731 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11709-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2018] [Accepted: 07/31/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Herbicides increase crop yields by allowing weed control and harvest management. Glyphosate is the most widely-used herbicide active ingredient, with $11 billion spent annually on glyphosate-containing products applied to >350 million hectares worldwide, using about 8.6 billion kg of glyphosate. The herbicidal effectiveness of glyphosate can depend upon the time of day of spraying. Here, we show that the plant circadian clock regulates the effectiveness of glyphosate. We identify a daily and circadian rhythm in the inhibition of plant development by glyphosate, due to interaction between glyphosate activity, the circadian oscillator and potentially auxin signalling. We identify that the circadian clock controls the timing and extent of glyphosate-induced plant cell death. Furthermore, the clock controls a rhythm in the minimum effective dose of glyphosate. We propose the concept of agricultural chronotherapy, similar in principle to chronotherapy in medical practice. Our findings provide a platform to refine agrochemical use and development, conferring future economic and environmental benefits.
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- Fiona E Belbin
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, UK
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- Syngenta, Jealott's Hill International Research Centre, Warfield, Bracknell, RG42 6EY, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, UK
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- Syngenta, Jealott's Hill International Research Centre, Warfield, Bracknell, RG42 6EY, UK
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- Syngenta, Jealott's Hill International Research Centre, Warfield, Bracknell, RG42 6EY, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, UK.
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Thines B, Parlan EV, Fulton EC. Circadian Network Interactions with Jasmonate Signaling and Defense. PLANTS 2019; 8:plants8080252. [PMID: 31357700 PMCID: PMC6724144 DOI: 10.3390/plants8080252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2019] [Revised: 07/21/2019] [Accepted: 07/23/2019] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Plants experience specific stresses at particular, but predictable, times of the day. The circadian clock is a molecular oscillator that increases plant survival by timing internal processes to optimally match these environmental challenges. Clock regulation of jasmonic acid (JA) action is important for effective defenses against fungal pathogens and generalist herbivores in multiple plant species. Endogenous JA levels are rhythmic and under clock control with peak JA abundance during the day, a time when plants are more likely to experience certain types of biotic stresses. The expression of many JA biosynthesis, signaling, and response genes is transcriptionally controlled by the clock and timed through direct connections with core clock proteins. For example, the promoter of Arabidopsis transcription factor MYC2, a master regulator for JA signaling, is directly bound by the clock evening complex (EC) to negatively affect JA processes, including leaf senescence, at the end of the day. Also, tobacco ZEITLUPE, a circadian photoreceptor, binds directly to JAZ proteins and stimulates their degradation with resulting effects on JA root-based defenses. Collectively, a model where JA processes are embedded within the circadian network at multiple levels is emerging, and these connections to the circadian network suggest multiple avenues for future research.
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- Bryan Thines
- Biology Department, University of Puget Sound, 1500 North Warner St., Tacoma, WA 98416, USA.
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- Biology Department, University of Puget Sound, 1500 North Warner St., Tacoma, WA 98416, USA
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- Biology Department, University of Puget Sound, 1500 North Warner St., Tacoma, WA 98416, USA
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Measuring Phytochrome-Dependent Light Input to the Plant Circadian Clock. Methods Mol Biol 2019. [PMID: 31317413 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9612-4_15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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The circadian clock allows plants to synchronize their internal processes with the external environment. This synchronization occurs through daily cues, one of which is light. Phytochromes are well established as light-sensing proteins and have been identified in forming multiple signaling networks with the central circadian oscillator. However, the precise details of how these networks are formed are yet to be established. Using established promoter-luciferase lines for clock genes crossed into mutant lines, it is possible to use luciferase-based imaging technologies to determine whether specific proteins are involved in phytochrome signaling to the circadian oscillator. The methods presented here use two automated methods of luciferase imaging in Arabidopsis to allow for high-throughput measurement of circadian clock components under a range of different light conditions.
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Diel transcriptional response of a California Current plankton microbiome to light, low iron, and enduring viral infection. ISME JOURNAL 2019; 13:2817-2833. [PMID: 31320727 PMCID: PMC6794264 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-019-0472-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2018] [Revised: 06/11/2019] [Accepted: 06/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Phytoplankton and associated microbial communities provide organic carbon to oceanic food webs and drive ecosystem dynamics. However, capturing those dynamics is challenging. Here, an in situ, semi-Lagrangian, robotic sampler profiled pelagic microbes at 4 h intervals over ~2.6 days in North Pacific high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll waters. We report on the community structure and transcriptional dynamics of microbes in an operationally large size class (>5 μm) predominantly populated by dinoflagellates, ciliates, haptophytes, pelagophytes, diatoms, cyanobacteria (chiefly Synechococcus), prasinophytes (chiefly Ostreococcus), fungi, archaea, and proteobacteria. Apart from fungi and archaea, all groups exhibited 24-h periodicity in some transcripts, but larger portions of the transcriptome oscillated in phototrophs. Periodic photosynthesis-related transcripts exhibited a temporal cascade across the morning hours, conserved across diverse phototrophic lineages. Pronounced silica:nitrate drawdown, a high flavodoxin to ferredoxin transcript ratio, and elevated expression of other Fe-stress markers indicated Fe-limitation. Fe-stress markers peaked during a photoperiodically adaptive time window that could modulate phytoplankton response to seasonal Fe-limitation. Remarkably, we observed viruses that infect the majority of abundant taxa, often with total transcriptional activity synchronized with putative hosts. Taken together, these data reveal a microbial plankton community that is shaped by recycled production and tightly controlled by Fe-limitation and viral activity.
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Day/Night Separation of Oxygenic Energy Metabolism and Nuclear DNA Replication in the Unicellular Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. mBio 2019; 10:mBio.00833-19. [PMID: 31266864 PMCID: PMC6606799 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00833-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Eukaryotes acquired chloroplasts through an endosymbiotic event in which a cyanobacterium or a unicellular eukaryotic alga was integrated into a previously nonphotosynthetic eukaryotic cell. Photosynthesis by chloroplasts enabled algae to expand their habitats and led to further evolution of land plants. However, photosynthesis causes greater oxidative stress than mitochondrion-based respiration. In seed plants, cell division is restricted to nonphotosynthetic meristematic tissues and populations of photosynthetic cells expand without cell division. Thus, seemingly, photosynthesis is spatially sequestrated from cell proliferation. In contrast, eukaryotic algae possess photosynthetic chloroplasts throughout their life cycle. Here we show that oxygenic energy conversion (daytime) and nuclear DNA replication (night time) are temporally sequestrated in C. merolae. This sequestration enables “safe” proliferation of cells and allows coexistence of chloroplasts and the eukaryotic host cell, as shown in yeast, where mitochondrial respiration and nuclear DNA replication are temporally sequestrated to reduce the mutation rate. The transition from G1 to S phase and subsequent nuclear DNA replication in the cells of many species of eukaryotic algae occur predominantly during the evening and night in the absence of photosynthesis; however, little is known about how day/night changes in energy metabolism and cell cycle progression are coordinated and about the advantage conferred by the restriction of S phase to the night. Using a synchronous culture of the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae, we found that the levels of photosynthetic and respiratory activities peak during the morning and then decrease toward the evening and night, whereas the pathways for anaerobic consumption of pyruvate, produced by glycolysis, are upregulated during the evening and night as reported recently in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Inhibition of photosynthesis by 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU) largely reduced respiratory activity and the amplitude of the day/night rhythm of respiration, suggesting that the respiratory rhythm depends largely on photosynthetic activity. Even when the timing of G1/S-phase transition was uncoupled from the day/night rhythm by depletion of retinoblastoma-related (RBR) protein, the same patterns of photosynthesis and respiration were observed, suggesting that cell cycle progression and energy metabolism are regulated independently. Progression of the S phase under conditions of photosynthesis elevated the frequency of nuclear DNA double-strand breaks (DSB). These results suggest that the temporal separation of oxygenic energy metabolism, which causes oxidative stress, from nuclear DNA replication reduces the risk of DSB during cell proliferation in C. merolae.
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Weng X, Lovell JT, Schwartz SL, Cheng C, Haque T, Zhang L, Razzaque S, Juenger TE. Complex interactions between day length and diurnal patterns of gene expression drive photoperiodic responses in a perennial C 4 grass. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2019; 42:2165-2182. [PMID: 30847928 DOI: 10.1111/pce.13546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2018] [Revised: 02/26/2019] [Accepted: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Photoperiod is a key environmental cue affecting flowering and biomass traits in plants. Key components of the photoperiodic flowering pathway have been identified in many species, but surprisingly few studies have globally examined the diurnal rhythm of gene expression with changes in day length. Using a cost-effective 3'-Tag RNA sequencing strategy, we characterize 9,010 photoperiod responsive genes with strict statistical testing across a diurnal time series in the C4 perennial grass, Panicum hallii. We show that the vast majority of photoperiod responses are driven by complex interactions between day length and sampling periods. A fine-scale contrast analysis at each sampling time revealed a detailed picture of the temporal reprogramming of cis-regulatory elements and biological processes under short- and long-day conditions. Phase shift analysis reveals quantitative variation among genes with photoperiod-dependent diurnal patterns. In addition, we identify three photoperiod enriched transcription factor families with key genes involved in photoperiod flowering regulatory networks. Finally, coexpression networks analysis of GIGANTEA homolog predicted 1,668 potential coincidence partners, including five well-known GI-interacting proteins. Our results not only provide a resource for understanding the mechanisms of photoperiod regulation in perennial grasses but also lay a foundation to increase biomass yield in biofuel crops.
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- Xiaoyu Weng
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712
- Genome Sequencing Center, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, 35806
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712
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Nohales MA, Liu W, Duffy T, Nozue K, Sawa M, Pruneda-Paz JL, Maloof JN, Jacobsen SE, Kay SA. Multi-level Modulation of Light Signaling by GIGANTEA Regulates Both the Output and Pace of the Circadian Clock. Dev Cell 2019; 49:840-851.e8. [PMID: 31105011 PMCID: PMC6597437 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2019.04.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2018] [Revised: 02/16/2019] [Accepted: 04/17/2019] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Integration of environmental signals with endogenous biological processes is essential for organisms to thrive in their natural environment. Being entrained by periodic environmental changes, the circadian clock incorporates external information to coordinate physiological processes, phasing them to the optimal time of the day and year. Here, we present a pivotal role for the clock component GIGANTEA (GI) as a genome-wide regulator of transcriptional networks mediating growth and adaptive processes in plants. We provide mechanistic details on how GI integrates endogenous timing with light signaling pathways through the global modulation of PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTORs (PIFs). Gating of the activity of these transcriptional regulators by GI directly affects a wide array of output rhythms, including photoperiodic growth. Furthermore, we uncover a role for PIFs in mediating light input to the circadian oscillator and show how their regulation by GI is required to set the pace of the clock in response to light-dark cycles.
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- Maria A Nohales
- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Zhejiang University, University of Edinburgh Institute, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, P.R. China
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- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
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Zhang C, Gao M, Seitz NC, Angel W, Hallworth A, Wiratan L, Darwish O, Alkharouf N, Dawit T, Lin D, Egoshi R, Wang X, McClung CR, Lu H. LUX ARRHYTHMO mediates crosstalk between the circadian clock and defense in Arabidopsis. Nat Commun 2019. [PMID: 31186426 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10485-10486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023] Open
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The circadian clock is known to regulate plant innate immunity but the underlying mechanism of this regulation remains largely unclear. We show here that mutations in the core clock component LUX ARRHYTHMO (LUX) disrupt circadian regulation of stomata under free running and Pseudomonas syringae challenge conditions as well as defense signaling mediated by SA and JA, leading to compromised disease resistance. RNA-seq analysis reveals that both clock- and defense-related genes are regulated by LUX. LUX binds to clock gene promoters that have not been shown before, expanding the clock gene networks that require LUX function. LUX also binds to the promoters of EDS1 and JAZ5, likely acting through these genes to affect SA- and JA-signaling. We further show that JA signaling reciprocally affects clock activity. Thus, our data support crosstalk between the circadian clock and plant innate immunity and imply an important role of LUX in this process.
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- Chong Zhang
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
- Genetic Improvement of Fruits and Vegetables Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, 20705, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
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- Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson University, Towson, MD, 21252, USA
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- Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson University, Towson, MD, 21252, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, College of Horticulture, Northwest A & F University, 712100, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA.
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Zhang C, Gao M, Seitz NC, Angel W, Hallworth A, Wiratan L, Darwish O, Alkharouf N, Dawit T, Lin D, Egoshi R, Wang X, McClung CR, Lu H. LUX ARRHYTHMO mediates crosstalk between the circadian clock and defense in Arabidopsis. Nat Commun 2019; 10:2543. [PMID: 31186426 PMCID: PMC6560066 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10485-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2017] [Accepted: 05/13/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The circadian clock is known to regulate plant innate immunity but the underlying mechanism of this regulation remains largely unclear. We show here that mutations in the core clock component LUX ARRHYTHMO (LUX) disrupt circadian regulation of stomata under free running and Pseudomonassyringae challenge conditions as well as defense signaling mediated by SA and JA, leading to compromised disease resistance. RNA-seq analysis reveals that both clock- and defense-related genes are regulated by LUX. LUX binds to clock gene promoters that have not been shown before, expanding the clock gene networks that require LUX function. LUX also binds to the promoters of EDS1 and JAZ5, likely acting through these genes to affect SA- and JA-signaling. We further show that JA signaling reciprocally affects clock activity. Thus, our data support crosstalk between the circadian clock and plant innate immunity and imply an important role of LUX in this process. Circadian control of plant defence likely reflects plants’ ability to coordinate development and defense. Here, Zhang et al. show that LUX regulates stomatal defense and SA/JA signaling, leading to broad-spectrum disease resistance, and that JA signaling can, in turn, regulate clock activity.
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- Chong Zhang
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA.,Genetic Improvement of Fruits and Vegetables Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, 20705, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
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- Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson University, Towson, MD, 21252, USA
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- Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson University, Towson, MD, 21252, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, College of Horticulture, Northwest A & F University, 712100, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA.
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Pinard D, Fierro AC, Marchal K, Myburg AA, Mizrachi E. Organellar carbon metabolism is coordinated with distinct developmental phases of secondary xylem. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2019; 222:1832-1845. [PMID: 30742304 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2018] [Accepted: 02/05/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Subcellular compartmentation of plant biosynthetic pathways in the mitochondria and plastids requires coordinated regulation of nuclear encoded genes, and the role of these genes has been largely ignored by wood researchers. In this study, we constructed a targeted systems genetics coexpression network of xylogenesis in Eucalyptus using plastid and mitochondrial carbon metabolic genes and compared the resulting clusters to the aspen xylem developmental series. The constructed network clusters reveal the organization of transcriptional modules regulating subcellular metabolic functions in plastids and mitochondria. Overlapping genes between the plastid and mitochondrial networks implicate the common transcriptional regulation of carbon metabolism during xylem secondary growth. We show that the central processes of organellar carbon metabolism are distinctly coordinated across the developmental stages of wood formation and are specifically associated with primary growth and secondary cell wall deposition. We also demonstrate that, during xylogenesis, plastid-targeted carbon metabolism is partially regulated by the central clock for carbon allocation towards primary and secondary xylem growth, and we discuss these networks in the context of previously established associations with wood-related complex traits. This study provides a new resolution into the integration and transcriptional regulation of plastid- and mitochondrial-localized carbon metabolism during xylogenesis.
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- Desré Pinard
- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Pretoria, 0028, South Africa
- Genomics Research Institute (GRI), University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Pretoria, 0028, South Africa
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- Department of Information Technology, Ghent University - iMinds, Technologiepark 15, Ghent, B-9052, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, Ghent, B-9052, Belgium
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- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Pretoria, 0028, South Africa
- Department of Information Technology, Ghent University - iMinds, Technologiepark 15, Ghent, B-9052, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, Ghent, B-9052, Belgium
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- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Pretoria, 0028, South Africa
- Genomics Research Institute (GRI), University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Pretoria, 0028, South Africa
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- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Pretoria, 0028, South Africa
- Genomics Research Institute (GRI), University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Pretoria, 0028, South Africa
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Rees H, Duncan S, Gould P, Wells R, Greenwood M, Brabbs T, Hall A. A high-throughput delayed fluorescence method reveals underlying differences in the control of circadian rhythms in Triticum aestivum and Brassica napus. PLANT METHODS 2019; 15:51. [PMID: 31139241 PMCID: PMC6530173 DOI: 10.1186/s13007-019-0436-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2018] [Accepted: 05/10/2019] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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BACKGROUND A robust circadian clock has been implicated in plant resilience, resource-use efficiency, competitive growth and yield. A huge number of physiological processes are under circadian control in plants including: responses to biotic and abiotic stresses; flowering time; plant metabolism; and mineral uptake. Understanding how the clock functions in crops such as Triticum aestivum (bread wheat) and Brassica napus (oilseed rape) therefore has great agricultural potential. Delayed fluorescence (DF) imaging has been shown to be applicable to a wide range of plant species and requires no genetic transformation. Although DF has been used to measure period length of both mutants and wild ecotypes of Arabidopsis, this assay has never been systematically optimised for crop plants. The physical size of both B. napus and T. aestivum led us to develop a representative sampling strategy which enables high-throughput imaging of these crops. RESULTS In this study, we describe the plant-specific optimisation of DF imaging to obtain reliable circadian phenotypes with the robustness and reproducibility to detect diverging periods between cultivars of the same species. We find that the age of plant material, light regime and temperature conditions all significantly effect DF rhythms and describe the optimal conditions for measuring robust rhythms in each species. We also show that sections of leaf can be used to obtain period estimates with improved throughput for larger sample size experiments. CONCLUSIONS We present an optimized protocol for high-throughput phenotyping of circadian period specific to two economically valuable crop plants. Application of this method revealed significant differences between the periods of several widely grown elite cultivars. This method also identified intriguing differential responses of circadian rhythms in T. aestivum compared to B. napus; specifically the dramatic change to rhythm robustness when plants were imaged under constant light versus constant darkness. This points towards diverging networks underlying circadian control in these two species.
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- Hannah Rees
- Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UG UK
- Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZB UK
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- Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UG UK
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- Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZB UK
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH UK
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- Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1LR UK
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QW UK
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- Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UG UK
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- Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UG UK
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Rubin MJ, Brock MT, Davis SJ, Weinig C. QTL Underlying Circadian Clock Parameters Under Seasonally Variable Field Settings in Arabidopsis thaliana. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2019; 9:1131-1139. [PMID: 30755409 PMCID: PMC6469418 DOI: 10.1534/g3.118.200770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2018] [Accepted: 02/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The circadian clock facilitates coordination of the internal rhythms of an organism to daily environmental conditions, such as the light-dark cycle of one day. Circadian period length (the duration of one endogenous cycle) and phase (the timing of peak activity) exhibit quantitative variation in natural populations. Here, we measured circadian period and phase in June, July and September in three Arabidopsis thaliana recombinant inbred line populations. Circadian period and phase were estimated from bioluminescence of a genetic construct between a native circadian clock gene (COLD CIRCADIAN RHYTHM RNA BINDING 2) and the reporter gene (LUCIFERASE) after lines were entrained under field settings. Using a Bayesian mapping approach, we estimated the median number and effect size of genomic regions (Quantitative Trait Loci, QTL) underlying circadian parameters and the degree to which these regions overlap across months of the growing season. We also tested for QTL associations between the circadian clock and plant morphology. The genetic architecture of circadian phase was largely independent across months, as evidenced by the fact that QTL determining phase values in one month of the growing season were different from those determining phase in a second month. QTL for circadian parameters were shared with both cauline and rosette branching in at least one mapping population. The results provide insights into the QTL architecture of the clock under field settings, and suggest that the circadian clock is highly responsive to changing environments and that selection can act on clock phase in a nuanced manner.
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- Matthew J Rubin
- Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071
- Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071
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- Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071
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- Department of Biology, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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- Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071
- Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071
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Khalid M, Khan S, Ahmad J, Shaheryar M. Identification of self-regulatory network motifs in reverse engineering gene regulatory networks using microarray gene expression data. IET Syst Biol 2019; 13:55-68. [PMID: 33444479 PMCID: PMC8687352 DOI: 10.1049/iet-syb.2018.5001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2018] [Revised: 11/01/2018] [Accepted: 12/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) are reconstructed from the microarray gene expression data through diversified computational approaches. This process ensues in symmetric and diagonal interaction of gene pairs that cannot be modelled as direct activation, inhibition, and self-regulatory interactions. The values of gene co-expressions could help in identifying co-regulations among them. The proposed approach aims at computing the differences in variances of co-expressed genes rather than computing differences in values of mean expressions across experimental conditions. It adopts multivariate co-variances using principal component analysis (PCA) to predict an asymmetric and non-diagonal gene interaction matrix, to select only those gene pair interactions that exhibit the maximum variances in gene regulatory expressions. The asymmetric gene regulatory interactions help in identifying the controlling regulatory agents, thus lowering the false positive rate by minimizing the connections between previously unlinked network components. The experimental results on real as well as in silico datasets including time-series RTX therapy, Arabidopsis thaliana, DREAM-3, and DREAM-8 datasets, in comparison with existing state-of-the-art approaches demonstrated the enhanced performance of the proposed approach for predicting positive and negative feedback loops and self-regulatory interactions. The generated GRNs hold the potential in determining the real nature of gene pair regulatory interactions.
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- Mehrosh Khalid
- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceNational University of Sciences and TechnologyIslamabadPakistan
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceNational University of Sciences and TechnologyIslamabadPakistan
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- Research Centre for Modelling and SimulationNational University of Sciences and TechnologyIslamabadPakistan
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- Department of Computer ScienceCapital University of Science and TechnologyIslamabadPakistan
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Lin K, Zhao H, Gan S, Li G. Arabidopsis ELF4-like proteins EFL1 and EFL3 influence flowering time. Gene 2019; 700:131-138. [PMID: 30917931 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2019.03.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2019] [Revised: 03/11/2019] [Accepted: 03/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The circadian clock synchronizes internal and external stimuli to ensure numerous biological processes occur at the optimal time. EARLY FLOWERING 4 (ELF4) is a key evening-phased component of the circadian clock and essential for photoperiod-dependent flowering time regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana. There are four homologous ELF4-like (EFL1-EFL4) genes in the Arabidopsis genome but their functions are unknown. Protein sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis showed that these four EFL proteins contained an evolutionarily conserved domain, DUF1313, of unknown function. To investigate the physical roles of these genes in Arabidopsis, we overexpressed the four homologous EFL genes in the elf4 mutant background. Under both long-day (LD) and short-day (SD) conditions, overexpression of EFL1 not only completely rescued the early flowering phenotype of the elf4 mutant, but also delayed flowering. Overexpression of EFL2, however, failed to rescue this phenotype and overexpression of EFL3 partially rescued the early flowering phenotype. The transcription levels of the key flowering time regulation genes CONSTANS (CO) and FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) were significantly decreased in the EFL1- and EFL3-overexpressing transgenic lines in a dose-dependent manner, compared with the elf4 mutant. These results suggest that EFL1 and EFL3 are involved in flowering time regulation in Arabidopsis.
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- Ke Lin
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an 271018, Shandong, China; Department of Biology Science and Technology, Taishan University, Tai'an 271000, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an 271018, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an 271018, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an 271018, Shandong, China.
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Contribution of time of day and the circadian clock to the heat stress responsive transcriptome in Arabidopsis. Sci Rep 2019; 9:4814. [PMID: 30886204 PMCID: PMC6423321 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-41234-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2018] [Accepted: 03/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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In Arabidopsis, a large subset of heat responsive genes exhibits diurnal or circadian oscillations. However, to what extent the dimension of time and/or the circadian clock contribute to heat stress responses remains largely unknown. To determine the direct contribution of time of day and/or the clock to differential heat stress responses, we probed wild-type and mutants of the circadian clock genes CCA1, LHY, PRR7, and PRR9 following exposure to heat (37 °C) and moderate cold (10 °C) in the early morning (ZT1) and afternoon (ZT6). Thousands of genes were differentially expressed in response to temperature, time of day, and/or the clock mutation. Approximately 30% more genes were differentially expressed in the afternoon compared to the morning, and heat stress significantly perturbed the transcriptome. Of the DEGs (~3000) specifically responsive to heat stress, ~70% showed time of day (ZT1 or ZT6) occurrence of the transcriptional response. For the DEGs (~1400) that are shared between ZT1 and ZT6, we observed changes to the magnitude of the transcriptional response. In addition, ~2% of all DEGs showed differential responses to temperature stress in the clock mutants. The findings in this study highlight a significant role for time of day in the heat stress responsive transcriptome, and the clock through CCA1 and LHY, appears to have a more profound role than PRR7 and PRR9 in modulating heat stress responses during the day. Our results emphasize the importance of considering the dimension of time in studies on abiotic stress responses in Arabidopsis.
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McClung CR. The Plant Circadian Oscillator. BIOLOGY 2019; 8:E14. [PMID: 30870980 PMCID: PMC6466001 DOI: 10.3390/biology8010014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2018] [Revised: 01/17/2019] [Accepted: 03/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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It has been nearly 300 years since the first scientific demonstration of a self-sustaining circadian clock in plants. It has become clear that plants are richly rhythmic, and many aspects of plant biology, including photosynthetic light harvesting and carbon assimilation, resistance to abiotic stresses, pathogens, and pests, photoperiodic flower induction, petal movement, and floral fragrance emission, exhibit circadian rhythmicity in one or more plant species. Much experimental effort, primarily, but not exclusively in Arabidopsis thaliana, has been expended to characterize and understand the plant circadian oscillator, which has been revealed to be a highly complex network of interlocked transcriptional feedback loops. In addition, the plant circadian oscillator has employed a panoply of post-transcriptional regulatory mechanisms, including alternative splicing, adjustable rates of translation, and regulated protein activity and stability. This review focuses on our present understanding of the regulatory network that comprises the plant circadian oscillator. The complexity of this oscillatory network facilitates the maintenance of robust rhythmicity in response to environmental extremes and permits nuanced control of multiple clock outputs. Consistent with this view, the clock is emerging as a target of domestication and presents multiple targets for targeted breeding to improve crop performance.
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- C Robertson McClung
- Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.
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Joo Y, Schuman MC, Goldberg JK, Wissgott A, Kim SG, Baldwin IT. Herbivory elicits changes in green leaf volatile production via jasmonate signaling and the circadian clock. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2019; 42:972-982. [PMID: 30378135 DOI: 10.1111/pce.13474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2018] [Revised: 10/22/2018] [Accepted: 10/23/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The timing of plant volatile emissions is important for a robust indirect defense response. Green leaf volatiles (GLVs) are emitted by plants upon damage but can be suppressed by herbivore-associated elicitors, and the abundance and composition of GLVs vary depending on the timing of herbivore attack. We show that the GLV biosynthetic enzyme HYDROPEROXIDE LYASE (HPL) is transcriptionally regulated by the circadian clock in Nicotiana attenuata. In accordance with transcript abundance of NaHPL, GLV aldehyde pools in intact leaves peaked at night and at subjective night under diurnal and continuous light conditions, respectively. Moreover, although the basal abundance of NaHPL transcripts is upregulated by jasmonate (JA) signaling, JA does not regulate the reduction of NaHPL transcript abundance in damaged leaves by simulated herbivore treatment. Unexpectedly, the plant circadian clock was strongly altered when Manduca sexta larvae fed on N. attenuata, and this was also independent of JA signaling. Lastly, the temporal dynamics of NaHPL transcripts and total GLV emissions were strongly altered by M. sexta larval feeding. Our data suggest that the temporal dynamics of emitted GLV blends result from a combination of damage, JA signaling, herbivore-associated elicitors, and the plant circadian clock.
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- Youngsung Joo
- Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
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Liang L, Chang Y, Lu J, Wu X, Liu Q, Zhang W, Su X, Zhang B. Global Methylomic and Transcriptomic Analyses Reveal the Broad Participation of DNA Methylation in Daily Gene Expression Regulation of Populus trichocarpa. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 10:243. [PMID: 30873202 PMCID: PMC6403135 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2018] [Accepted: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Changes in DNA methylation patterns in different tissues, at various developmental stages, and under environmental stimuli have been investigated in plants. However, the involvement of DNA methylation in daily gene expression regulation and the plant circadian clock have not been reported. Here, we investigated DNA methylomes and mRNA transcriptomes from leaves of P. trichocarpa over 24 h by high-throughput sequencing. We found that approximately 15.63-19.50% of the genomic cytosine positions were methylated in mature poplar leaves, with approximately half being in the form of asymmetric CHH sites. Repetitive sequences and transposable elements (TEs) were heavily methylated, and the hAT and CMC-EnSpm transposons were more heavily methylated than other TEs. High methylation levels were observed upstream and downstream of the transcribed region, medium in exon and intron, low in untranslated region (5'-UTR and 3'-UTR) of genic regions. In total, about 53,689 differentially methylated regions (DMRs) were identified and CHH context was the most abundant type among daily DNA methylation changes. The DMRs overlapped with over one third of the total poplar genes, including plant defense genes. In addition, a positive correlation between expression levels and DNA methylation levels in the gene body region were observed in DMR overlapping genes. About 1,895 circadian regulated genes overlapped with DMRs, with 871 hypermethylated genes with down-regulated expression levels and 881 hypomethylated genes with up-regulated expression levels, indicating the possible regulation of DNA methylation on the daily rhythmic expression of these genes. But rhythmic DNA methylation changes were not detected in any oscillator component genes controlling the plant circadian clock. Our results suggest that DNA methylation participates widely in daily gene expression regulation, but is not the main mechanism modulating the plant circadian clock.
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- Lixiong Liang
- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of State Forestry Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of State Forestry Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of State Forestry Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of State Forestry Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of State Forestry Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of State Forestry Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of State Forestry Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of State Forestry Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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Toda Y, Kudo T, Kinoshita T, Nakamichi N. Evolutionary Insight into the Clock-Associated PRR5 Transcriptional Network of Flowering Plants. Sci Rep 2019; 9:2983. [PMID: 30814643 PMCID: PMC6393427 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-39720-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2018] [Accepted: 01/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Circadian clocks regulate the daily timing of metabolic, physiological, and behavioral activities to adapt organisms to day-night cycles. In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, transcript-translational feedback loops (TTFL) constitute the circadian clock, which is conserved among flowering plants. Arabidopsis TTFL directly regulates key genes in the clock-output pathways, whereas the pathways for clock-output control in other plants is largely unknown. Here, we propose that the transcriptional networks of clock-associated pseudo-response regulators (PRRs) are conserved among flowering plants. Most PRR genes from Arabidopsis, poplar, and rice encode potential transcriptional repressors. The PRR5-target-like gene group includes genes that encode key transcription factors for flowering time regulation, cell elongation, and chloroplast gene expression. The 5'-upstream regions of PRR5-target-like genes from poplar and rice tend to contain G-box-like elements that are potentially recognized by PRRs in vivo as has been shown in Arabidopsis. Expression of PRR5-target-like genes from poplar and rice tends to decrease when PRRs are expressed, possibly suggesting that the transcriptional network of PRRs is evolutionarily conserved in these plants.
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- Yosuke Toda
- Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0022, Japan
- Institute of Transformative Bio-molecules, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
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- Metabologenomics, Inc., 246-2 Mizukami Kakuganji, Tsuruoka, Yamagata, 997-0052, Japan
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- Institute of Transformative Bio-molecules, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
- Graduate School of Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
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- Institute of Transformative Bio-molecules, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan.
- Graduate School of Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan.
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Circadian oscillators are networks of biochemical feedback loops that generate 24-hour rhythms in organisms from bacteria to animals. These periodic rhythms result from a complex interplay among clock components that are specific to the organism, but share molecular mechanisms across kingdoms. A full understanding of these processes requires detailed knowledge, not only of the biochemical properties of clock proteins and their interactions, but also of the three-dimensional structure of clockwork components. Posttranslational modifications and protein–protein interactions have become a recent focus, in particular the complex interactions mediated by the phosphorylation of clock proteins and the formation of multimeric protein complexes that regulate clock genes at transcriptional and translational levels. This review covers the structural aspects of circadian oscillators, and serves as a primer for this exciting realm of structural biology.
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- Reena Saini
- Center for Biocrystallographic Research, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland.,Max-Planck-Institut für Pflanzenzüchtungsforschung, Cologne, Germany
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- Center for Biocrystallographic Research, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland.,Department of Crystallography, Faculty of Chemistry, A. Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Pflanzenzüchtungsforschung, Cologne, Germany. .,Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK.
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Lee HG, Hong C, Seo PJ. The Arabidopsis Sin3-HDAC Complex Facilitates Temporal Histone Deacetylation at the CCA1 and PRR9 Loci for Robust Circadian Oscillation. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 10:171. [PMID: 30833956 PMCID: PMC6387943 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2018] [Accepted: 02/01/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The circadian clock synchronizes endogenous rhythmic processes with environmental cycles and maximizes plant fitness. Multiple regulatory layers shape circadian oscillation, and chromatin modification is emerging as an important scheme for precise circadian waveforms. Here, we report the role of an evolutionarily conserved Sin3-histone deacetylase complex (HDAC) in circadian oscillation in Arabidopsis. SAP30 FUNCTION-RELATED 1 (AFR1) and AFR2, which are key components of Sin3-HDAC complex, are circadianly-regulated and possibly facilitate the temporal formation of the Arabidopsis Sin3-HDAC complex at dusk. The evening-expressed AFR proteins bind directly to the CIRCADIAN CLOCK ASSOCIATED 1 (CCA1) and PSEUDO-RESPONSE REGULATOR 9 (PRR9) promoters and catalyze histone 3 (H3) deacetylation at the cognate regions to repress expression, allowing the declining phase of their expression at dusk. In support, the CCA1 and PRR9 genes were de-repressed around dusk in the afr1-1afr2-1 double mutant. These findings indicate that periodic histone deacetylation at the morning genes by the Sin3-HDAC complex contributes to robust circadian maintenance in higher plants.
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- Hong Gil Lee
- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
- Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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Klepikova AV, Kulakovskiy IV, Kasianov AS, Logacheva MD, Penin AA. An update to database TraVA: organ-specific cold stress response in Arabidopsis thaliana. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2019; 19:49. [PMID: 30813912 PMCID: PMC6393959 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-019-1636-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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BACKGROUND Transcriptome map is a powerful tool for a variety of biological studies; transcriptome maps that include different organs, tissues, cells and stages of development are currently available for at least 30 plants. Some of them include samples treated by environmental or biotic stresses. However, most studies explore only limited set of organs and developmental stages (leaves or seedlings). In order to provide broader view of organ-specific strategies of cold stress response we studied expression changes that follow exposure to cold (+ 4 °C) in different aerial parts of plant: cotyledons, hypocotyl, leaves, young flowers, mature flowers and seeds using RNA-seq. RESULTS The results on differential expression in leaves are congruent with current knowledge on stress response pathways, in particular, the role of CBF genes. In other organs, both essence and dynamics of gene expression changes are different. We show the involvement of genes that are confined to narrow expression patterns in non-stress conditions into stress response. In particular, the genes that control cell wall modification in pollen, are activated in leaves. In seeds, predominant pattern is the change of lipid metabolism. CONCLUSIONS Stress response is highly organ-specific; different pathways are involved in this process in each type of organs. The results were integrated with previously published transcriptome map of Arabidopsis thaliana and used for an update of a public database TraVa: http://travadb.org/browse/Species=AthStress .
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- Anna V. Klepikova
- Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshoy Karetny per. 19, build.1, Moscow, 127051 Russia
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- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gubkina 3, Moscow, 119991 Russia
- Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology RAS - the Branch of Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vitkevicha 1, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290 Russia
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilova 32, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gubkina 3, Moscow, 119991 Russia
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshoy Karetny per. 19, build.1, Moscow, 127051 Russia
- Moscow State University, Leninskye gory, build 1, Moscow, 119992 Russia
- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Nobelya Ulitsa 3, Moscow, 121205 Russia
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshoy Karetny per. 19, build.1, Moscow, 127051 Russia
- Moscow State University, Leninskye gory, build 1, Moscow, 119992 Russia
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Ferrari C, Proost S, Janowski M, Becker J, Nikoloski Z, Bhattacharya D, Price D, Tohge T, Bar-Even A, Fernie A, Stitt M, Mutwil M. Kingdom-wide comparison reveals the evolution of diurnal gene expression in Archaeplastida. Nat Commun 2019; 10:737. [PMID: 30760717 PMCID: PMC6374488 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08703-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2018] [Accepted: 01/23/2019] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Plants have adapted to the diurnal light-dark cycle by establishing elaborate transcriptional programs that coordinate many metabolic, physiological, and developmental responses to the external environment. These transcriptional programs have been studied in only a few species, and their function and conservation across algae and plants is currently unknown. We performed a comparative transcriptome analysis of the diurnal cycle of nine members of Archaeplastida, and we observed that, despite large phylogenetic distances and dramatic differences in morphology and lifestyle, diurnal transcriptional programs of these organisms are similar. Expression of genes related to cell division and the majority of biological pathways depends on the time of day in unicellular algae but we did not observe such patterns at the tissue level in multicellular land plants. Hence, our study provides evidence for the universality of diurnal gene expression and elucidates its evolutionary history among different photosynthetic eukaryotes.
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- Camilla Ferrari
- Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Muehlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Muehlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Muehlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
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- Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, R. Q.ta Grande 6, 2780-156, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Muehlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany.,Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA
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- Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Muehlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany.,Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, 630-0192, Japan
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- Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Muehlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Muehlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Muehlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Muehlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany. .,School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637551, Singapore.
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Transcriptome Analysis of Diurnal Gene Expression in Chinese Cabbage. Genes (Basel) 2019; 10:genes10020130. [PMID: 30754711 PMCID: PMC6409912 DOI: 10.3390/genes10020130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2018] [Revised: 01/31/2019] [Accepted: 02/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Plants have developed timing mechanisms that enable them to maintain synchrony with daily environmental events. These timing mechanisms, i.e., circadian clocks, include transcriptional/translational feedback loops that drive 24 h transcriptional rhythms, which underlie oscillations in protein abundance, thus mediating circadian rhythms of behavior, physiology, and metabolism. Circadian clock genes have been investigated in the diploid model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Crop plants with polyploid genomes—such as Brassica species—have multiple copies of some clock-related genes. Over the last decade, numerous studies have been aimed at identifying and understanding the function of paralogous genes with conserved sequences, or those that diverged during evolution. Brassica rapa’s triplicate genomes retain sequence-level collinearity with Arabidopsis. In this study, we used RNA sequencing (RNAseq) to profile the diurnal transcriptome of Brassica rapa seedlings. We identified candidate paralogs of circadian clock-related genes and assessed their expression levels. These genes and their related traits that modulate the diurnal rhythm of gene expression contribute to the adaptation of crop cultivars. Our findings will contribute to the mechanistic study of circadian clock regulation inherent in polyploidy genome crops, which differ from those of model plants, and thus will be useful for future breeding studies using clock genes.
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Flis A, Mengin V, Ivakov AA, Mugford ST, Hubberten HM, Encke B, Krohn N, Höhne M, Feil R, Hoefgen R, Lunn JE, Millar AJ, Smith AM, Sulpice R, Stitt M. Multiple circadian clock outputs regulate diel turnover of carbon and nitrogen reserves. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2019; 42:549-573. [PMID: 30184255 DOI: 10.1111/pce.13440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2017] [Revised: 08/27/2018] [Accepted: 08/31/2018] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Plants accumulate reserves in the daytime to support growth at night. Circadian regulation of diel reserve turnover was investigated by profiling starch, sugars, glucose 6-phosphate, organic acids, and amino acids during a light-dark cycle and after transfer to continuous light in Arabidopsis wild types and in mutants lacking dawn (lhy cca1), morning (prr7 prr9), dusk (toc1, gi), or evening (elf3) clock components. The metabolite time series were integrated with published time series for circadian clock transcripts to identify circadian outputs that regulate central metabolism. (a) Starch accumulation was slower in elf3 and prr7 prr9. It is proposed that ELF3 positively regulates starch accumulation. (b) Reducing sugars were high early in the T-cycle in elf3, revealing that ELF3 negatively regulates sucrose recycling. (c) The pattern of starch mobilization was modified in all five mutants. A model is proposed in which dawn and dusk/evening components interact to pace degradation to anticipated dawn. (d) An endogenous oscillation of glucose 6-phosphate revealed that the clock buffers metabolism against the large influx of carbon from photosynthesis. (e) Low levels of organic and amino acids in lhy cca1 and high levels in prr7 prr9 provide evidence that the dawn components positively regulate the accumulation of amino acid reserves.
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- Anna Flis
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- SynthSys and School of Biological Sciences, C.H. Waddington Building, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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Xu G, Jiang Z, Wang H, Lin R. The central circadian clock proteins CCA1 and LHY regulate iron homeostasis in Arabidopsis. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2019; 61:168-181. [PMID: 29989313 DOI: 10.1111/jipb.12696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2018] [Accepted: 07/06/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Circadian clock is the endogenous time-keeping machinery that synchronizes an organism's metabolism, behavior, and physiology to the daily light-dark circles, thereby contributing to organismal fitness. Iron (Fe) is an essential micronutrient for all organisms and it plays important roles in diverse processes of plant growth and development. Here, we show that, in Arabidopsis thaliana, loss of the central clock genes, CIRCADIAN CLOCK ASSOCIATED 1 (CCA1) and LATE ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL (LHY), results in both reduced Fe uptake and photosynthetic efficiency, whereas CCA1 overexpression confers the opposite effects. We show that root Fe(III) reduction activity, and expression of FERRIC REDUCTION OXIDASE 2 (FRO2) and IRON-REGULATED TRANSPORTER 1 (IRT1) exhibit circadian oscillations, which are disrupted in the cca1 lhy double mutant. Furthermore, CCA1 directly binds to the specific regulatory regions of multiple Fe homeostasis genes and activates their expression. Thus, this study established that, in plants, CCA1 and LHY function as master regulators that maintain cyclic Fe homeostasis.
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- Gang Xu
- Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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Gil KE, Park CM. Thermal adaptation and plasticity of the plant circadian clock. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2019; 221:1215-1229. [PMID: 30289568 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2018] [Accepted: 09/11/2018] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Contents Summary 1215 I. Introduction 1215 II. Molecular organization of the plant circadian clock 1216 III. Temperature compensation 1219 IV. Temperature regulation of circadian behaviors 1220 V. Thermal adaptation of the clock: evolutionary considerations 1223 VI. Light and temperature information for the clock function - synergic or individual? 1224 VII. Concluding remarks and future prospects 1225 Acknowledgements 1225 References 1225 SUMMARY: Plant growth and development is widely affected by diverse temperature conditions. Although studies have been focused mainly on the effects of stressful temperature extremes in recent decades, nonstressful ambient temperatures also influence an array of plant growth and morphogenic aspects, a process termed thermomorphogenesis. Notably, accumulating evidence indicates that both stressful and nonstressful temperatures modulate the functional process of the circadian clock, a molecular timer of biological rhythms in higher eukaryotes and photosynthetic prokaryotes. The circadian clock can sustain robust and precise timing over a range of physiological temperatures. Genes and molecular mechanisms governing the temperature compensation process have been explored in different plant species. In addition, a ZEITLUPE/HSP90-mediated protein quality control mechanism helps plants maintain the thermal stability of the clock under heat stress. The thermal adaptation capability and plasticity of the clock are of particular interest in view of the growing concern about global climate changes. Considering these circumstances in the field, we believe that it is timely to provide a provoking discussion on the current knowledge of temperature regulation of the clock function. The review also will discuss stimulating ideas on this topic along with ecosystem management and future agricultural innovation.
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- Kyung-Eun Gil
- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Korea
- Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Korea
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Tirumani S, Gothandam KM, J Rao B. Coordination between photorespiration and carbon concentrating mechanism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: transcript and protein changes during light-dark diurnal cycles and mixotrophy conditions. PROTOPLASMA 2019; 256:117-130. [PMID: 29987443 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-018-1283-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2018] [Accepted: 07/02/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Carbon concentrating mechanism (CCM) and photorespiration (PR) are interlinked and co-regulated in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, but conditions where co-regulation alters are not sufficiently explored. Here, we uncover that PR gene transcripts, like CCM transcripts, are induced even in the dark when both processes are not active. Such diurnal cycles show that transcript levels peak in the middle of 12 h day, decline by early part of 12-h dark followed by their onset again at mid-dark. Interestingly, the onset in the mid-dark phase is sensitive to high CO2, implying that the active carbon sensing mechanism operates even in the dark. The rhythmic alterations of both CCM and PR transcript levels are unlinked to circadian clock: the "free-running state" reveals no discernible rhythmicity in transcript changes. Only continuous light leads to high transcript levels but no detectable transcripts were observed in continuous dark. Asynchronous continuous light cultures, upon shifting to low from high CO2 exhibit only transient induction of PR transcripts/proteins while CCM transcript induction is stable, indicating the loss of co-regulation between PR and CCM gene transcription. Lastly, we also describe that both CCM and PR transcripts/proteins are induced in low CO2 even in mixotrophic cultures, but only in high light, the same being attenuated in high CO2, implying that high light is a mandatory "trigger" for CCM and PR induction in low CO2 mixotrophy. Our study provides comprehensive analyses of conditions where CCM and PR were differently regulated, setting a paradigm for a detailed mechanistic probing of these responses.
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- S Tirumani
- B-202, Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai, 400005, India
- School of Bio Sciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 632014, India
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- School of Bio Sciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 632014, India
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- B-202, Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai, 400005, India.
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Karkambadi Road, Mangalam (B.O.), Tirupati, AP, 517507, India.
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de Leone MJ, Hernando CE, Romanowski A, García-Hourquet M, Careno D, Casal J, Rugnone M, Mora-García S, Yanovsky MJ. The LNK Gene Family: At the Crossroad between Light Signaling and the Circadian Clock. Genes (Basel) 2018; 10:genes10010002. [PMID: 30577529 PMCID: PMC6356500 DOI: 10.3390/genes10010002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2018] [Revised: 12/13/2018] [Accepted: 12/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Light signaling pathways interact with the circadian clock to help organisms synchronize physiological and developmental processes to periodic environmental cycles. The plant photoreceptors responsible for clock resetting have been characterized, but signaling components that link the photoreceptors to the clock remain to be identified. Members of the family of NIGHT LIGHT–INDUCIBLE AND CLOCK-REGULATED (LNK) genes play key roles linking light regulation of gene expression to the control of daily and seasonal rhythms in Arabidopsis thaliana. Particularly, LNK1 and LNK2 were shown to control circadian rhythms, photomorphogenic responses, and photoperiod-dependent flowering time. Here we analyze the role of the four members of the LNK family in Arabidopsis in these processes. We found that depletion of the closely related LNK3 and LNK4 in a lnk1;lnk2 mutant background affects circadian rhythms, but not other clock-regulated processes such as flowering time and seedling photomorphogenesis. Nevertheless, plants defective in all LNK genes (lnkQ quadruple mutants) display developmental alterations that lead to increased rosette size, biomass, and enhanced phototropic responses. Our work indicates that members of the LNK family have both distinctive and partially overlapping functions, and are an essential link to orchestrate light-regulated developmental processes.
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- María José de Leone
- Leloir Institute, Biochemical Research Institute of Buenos Aires (IIBBA)⁻ National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Av. Patricias Argentinas 435, Ciudad de Buenos Aires C1405BWE, Argentina.
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- Leloir Institute, Biochemical Research Institute of Buenos Aires (IIBBA)⁻ National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Av. Patricias Argentinas 435, Ciudad de Buenos Aires C1405BWE, Argentina.
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- Leloir Institute, Biochemical Research Institute of Buenos Aires (IIBBA)⁻ National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Av. Patricias Argentinas 435, Ciudad de Buenos Aires C1405BWE, Argentina.
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- Leloir Institute, Biochemical Research Institute of Buenos Aires (IIBBA)⁻ National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Av. Patricias Argentinas 435, Ciudad de Buenos Aires C1405BWE, Argentina.
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- Leloir Institute, Biochemical Research Institute of Buenos Aires (IIBBA)⁻ National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Av. Patricias Argentinas 435, Ciudad de Buenos Aires C1405BWE, Argentina.
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- Leloir Institute, Biochemical Research Institute of Buenos Aires (IIBBA)⁻ National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Av. Patricias Argentinas 435, Ciudad de Buenos Aires C1405BWE, Argentina.
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- The Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
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- Leloir Institute, Biochemical Research Institute of Buenos Aires (IIBBA)⁻ National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Av. Patricias Argentinas 435, Ciudad de Buenos Aires C1405BWE, Argentina.
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- Leloir Institute, Biochemical Research Institute of Buenos Aires (IIBBA)⁻ National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Av. Patricias Argentinas 435, Ciudad de Buenos Aires C1405BWE, Argentina.
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iTRAQ-Based Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of a Toxigenic Dinoflagellate Alexandrium catenella at Different Stages of Toxin Biosynthesis during the Cell Cycle. Mar Drugs 2018; 16:md16120491. [PMID: 30544585 PMCID: PMC6315610 DOI: 10.3390/md16120491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2018] [Revised: 12/02/2018] [Accepted: 12/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) are a group of potent neurotoxic alkaloids that are produced mainly by marine dinoflagellates. PST biosynthesis in dinoflagellates is a discontinuous process that is coupled to the cell cycle. However, little is known about the molecular mechanism underlying this association. Here, we compared global protein expression profiles of a toxigenic dinoflagellate, Alexandrium catenella, collected at four different stages of toxin biosynthesis during the cell cycle, using an isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantification (iTRAQ)-based quantitative proteomic approach. The results showed that toxin biosynthesis occurred mainly in the G1 phase, especially the late G1 phase. In total, 7232 proteins were confidently identified, and 210 proteins exhibited differential expression among the four stages. Proteins involved in protein translation and photosynthetic pigment biosynthesis were significantly upregulated during toxin biosynthesis, indicating close associations among the three processes. Nine toxin-related proteins were detected, and two core toxin biosynthesis proteins, namely, sxtA and sxtI, were identified for the first time in dinoflagellates. Among these proteins, sxtI and ompR were significantly downregulated when toxin biosynthesis stopped, indicating that they played important roles in the regulation of PST biosynthesis. Our study provides new insights into toxin biosynthesis in marine dinoflagellates: nitrogen balance among different biological processes regulates toxin biosynthesis, and that glutamate might play a key modulatory role.
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Geilfus CM, Lan J, Carpentier S. Dawn regulates guard cell proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana that function in ATP production from fatty acid beta-oxidation. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2018; 98:525-543. [PMID: 30392160 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-018-0794-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2018] [Accepted: 10/28/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Based on the nature of the proteins that are altered in abundance, we conclude that guard cells switch their energy source from fatty acid metabolism to chloroplast activity, at the onset of dawn. During stomatal opening at dawn, evidence was recently presented for a breakdown and liquidation of stored triacylglycerols in guard cells to supply ATP for use in stomatal opening. However, proteome changes that happen in the guard cells during dawn were until now poorly understood. Bad accessibility to pure and intact guard cell samples can be considered as the primary reason behind this lack of knowledge. To overcome these technical constraints, epidermal guard cell samples with ruptured pavement cells were isolated at 1 h pre-dawn, 15 min post-dawn and 1 h post-dawn from Arabidopsis thaliana. Proteomic changes were analysed by ultra-performance-liquid-chromatography-mass-spectrometry. With 994 confidently identified proteins, we present the first analysis of the A. thaliana guard cell proteome that is not influenced by side effects of guard cell protoplasting. Data are available via ProteomeXchange with identifier PXD009918. By elucidating the identities of enzymes that change in abundance by the transition from dark to light, we corroborate the hypothesis that respiratory ATP production for stomatal opening results from fatty acid beta-oxidation. Moreover, we identified many proteins that were never reported in the context of guard cell biology. Among them are proteins that might play a role in signalling or circadian rhythm.
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- Christoph-Martin Geilfus
- Division of Controlled Environment Horticulture, Faculty of Life Sciences, Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Albrecht-Thaer-Weg 1, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
- Proteomics Core Facility, SYBIOMA, KU Leuven, O&N II Herestraat 49 - bus 901, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, 24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, UK
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- Proteomics Core Facility, SYBIOMA, KU Leuven, O&N II Herestraat 49 - bus 901, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
- Division of Crop Biotechnics, Department of Biosystems, KU Leuven, Willem de Croylaan 42 - Box 2455, 3001, Leuven, Belgium
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Liu W, Cheng C, Chen F, Ni S, Lin Y, Lai Z. High-throughput sequencing of small RNAs revealed the diversified cold-responsive pathways during cold stress in the wild banana (Musa itinerans). BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2018; 18:308. [PMID: 30486778 PMCID: PMC6263057 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-018-1483-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2017] [Accepted: 10/15/2018] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND Cold stress is one of the most severe abiotic stresses affecting the banana production. Although some miRNAs have been identified, little is known about the role of miRNAs in response to cold stress in banana, and up to date, there is no report about the role of miRNAs in the response to cold stress in the plants of the cultivated or wild bananas. RESULT Here, a cold-resistant line wild banana (Musa itinerans) from China was used to profile the cold-responsive miRNAs by RNA-seq during cold stress. Totally, 265 known mature miRNAs and 41 novel miRNAs were obtained. Cluster analysis of differentially expressed (DE) miRNAs indicated that some miRNAs were specific for chilling or 0 °C treated responses, and most of them were reported to be cold-responsive; however, some were seldom reported to be cold-responsive in response to cold stress, e.g., miR395, miR408, miR172, suggesting that they maybe play key roles in response to cold stress. The GO and KEGG pathway enrichment analysis of DE miRNAs targets indicated that there existed diversified cold-responsive pathways, and miR172 was found likely to play a central coordinating role in response to cold stress, especially in the regulation of CK2 and the circadian rhythm. Finally, qPCR assays indicated the related targets were negatively regulated by the tested DE miRNAs during cold stress in the wild banana. CONCLUSIONS In this study, the profiling of miRNAs by RNA-seq in response to cold stress in the plants of the wild banana (Musa itinerans) was reported for the first time. The results showed that there existed diversified cold-responsive pathways, which provided insight into the roles of miRNAs during cold stress, and would be helpful for alleviating cold stress and cold-resistant breeding in bananas.
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- Weihua Liu
- Institute of Horticultural Biotechnology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002 China
- Chongqing Normal University, Daxuecheng Middle Rd, Chongqing, Shapingba Qu China
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- Institute of Horticultural Biotechnology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002 China
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- Institute of Horticultural Biotechnology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002 China
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- Institute of Horticultural Biotechnology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002 China
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- Institute of Horticultural Biotechnology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002 China
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- Institute of Horticultural Biotechnology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002 China
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Moseley RC, Mewalal R, Motta F, Tuskan GA, Haase S, Yang X. Conservation and Diversification of Circadian Rhythmicity Between a Model Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Plant Kalanchoë fedtschenkoi and a Model C 3 Photosynthesis Plant Arabidopsis thaliana. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:1757. [PMID: 30546378 PMCID: PMC6279919 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2018] [Accepted: 11/12/2018] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) improves photosynthetic efficiency under limited water availability relative to C3 photosynthesis. It is widely accepted that CAM plants have evolved from C3 plants and it is hypothesized that CAM is under the control of the internal circadian clock. However, the role that the circadian clock plays in the evolution of CAM is not well understood. To identify the molecular basis of circadian control over CAM evolution, rhythmic gene sets were identified in a CAM model plant species (Kalanchoë fedtschenkoi) and a C3 model plant species (Arabidopsis thaliana) through analysis of diel time-course gene expression data using multiple periodicity detection algorithms. Based on protein sequences, ortholog groups were constructed containing genes from each of these two species. The ortholog groups were categorized into five gene sets based on conservation and diversification of rhythmic gene expression. Interestingly, minimal functional overlap was observed when comparing the rhythmic gene sets of each species. Specifcally, metabolic processes were enriched in the gene set under circadian control in K. fedtschenkoi and numerous genes were found to have retained or gained rhythmic expression in K. fedtsechenkoi. Additonally, several rhythmic orthologs, including CAM-related orthologs, displayed phase shifts between species. Results of this analysis point to several mechanisms by which the circadian clock plays a role in the evolution of CAM. These genes provide a set of testable hypotheses for future experiments.
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- Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, United States
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- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
- DOE Center for Bioenergy Innovation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
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- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
- DOE Center for Bioenergy Innovation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
- The Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States
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Yang P, Wang J, Huang FY, Yang S, Wu K. The Plant Circadian Clock and Chromatin Modifications. Genes (Basel) 2018; 9:genes9110561. [PMID: 30463332 PMCID: PMC6266252 DOI: 10.3390/genes9110561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2018] [Revised: 10/27/2018] [Accepted: 11/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The circadian clock is an endogenous timekeeping network that integrates environmental signals with internal cues to coordinate diverse physiological processes. The circadian function depends on the precise regulation of rhythmic gene expression at the core of the oscillators. In addition to the well-characterized transcriptional feedback regulation of several clock components, additional regulatory mechanisms, such as alternative splicing, regulation of protein stability, and chromatin modifications are beginning to emerge. In this review, we discuss recent findings in the regulation of the circadian clock function in Arabidopsis thaliana. The involvement of chromatin modifications in the regulation of the core circadian clock genes is also discussed.
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- Ping Yang
- Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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- Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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- Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan.
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- Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China.
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- Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan.
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Cano-Ramirez DL, Dodd AN. New connections between circadian rhythms, photosynthesis, and environmental adaptation. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2018; 41:2515-2517. [PMID: 29785736 DOI: 10.1111/pce.13346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2018] [Revised: 05/16/2018] [Accepted: 05/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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This article comments on: Circadian rhythms are associated with variation in photosystem II function and photoprotective mechanisms.
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- Dora L Cano-Ramirez
- School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, University of Bristol, 24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, University of Bristol, 24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, UK
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Belbin FE, Dodd AN. ABA signalling is regulated by the circadian clock component LHY. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2018; 220:661-663. [PMID: 30324736 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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- Fiona E Belbin
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, UK
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Adams S, Grundy J, Veflingstad SR, Dyer NP, Hannah MA, Ott S, Carré IA. Circadian control of abscisic acid biosynthesis and signalling pathways revealed by genome-wide analysis of LHY binding targets. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2018; 220:893-907. [PMID: 30191576 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2018] [Accepted: 07/23/2018] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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The LATE ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL (LHY) transcription factor functions as part of the oscillatory mechanism of the Arabidopsis circadian clock. This paper reports the genome-wide analysis of its binding targets and reveals a role in the control of abscisic acid (ABA) biosynthesis and downstream responses. LHY directly repressed expression of 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase enzymes, which catalyse the rate-limiting step of ABA biosynthesis. This suggested a mechanism for the circadian control of ABA accumulation in wild-type plants. Consistent with this hypothesis, ABA accumulated rhythmically in wild-type plants, peaking in the evening. LHY-overexpressing plants had reduced levels of ABA under drought stress, whereas loss-of-function mutants exhibited an altered rhythm of ABA accumulation. LHY also bound the promoter of multiple components of ABA signalling pathways, suggesting that it may also act to regulate responses downstream of the hormone. LHY promoted expression of ABA-responsive genes responsible for increased tolerance to drought and osmotic stress but alleviated the inhibitory effect of ABA on seed germination and plant growth. This study reveals a complex interaction between the circadian clock and ABA pathways, which is likely to make an important contribution to plant performance under drought and osmotic stress conditions.
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- Sally Adams
- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
- Bayer CropScience NV, Technologiepark 38, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
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- Systems Biology Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
- Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
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- Systems Biology Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
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- Systems Biology Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
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Yan X, Qian C, Yin X, Fan X, Zhao X, Gu M, Wang T, Ma XF. A whole-transcriptome approach to evaluate reference genes for quantitative diurnal gene expression studies under natural field conditions in Tamarix ramosissima leaves. ELECTRON J BIOTECHN 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejbt.2018.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Liu J, Shi Y, Yang S. Insights into the regulation of C-repeat binding factors in plant cold signaling. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2018; 60:780-795. [PMID: 29667328 DOI: 10.1111/jipb.12657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2018] [Accepted: 04/16/2018] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Cold temperatures, a major abiotic stress, threaten the growth and development of plants, worldwide. To cope with this adverse environmental cue, plants from temperate climates have evolved an array of sophisticated mechanisms to acclimate to cold periods, increasing their ability to tolerate freezing stress. Over the last decade, significant progress has been made in determining the molecular mechanisms underpinning cold acclimation, including following the identification of several pivotal components, including candidates for cold sensors, protein kinases, and transcription factors. With these developments, we have a better understanding of the CBF-dependent cold-signaling pathway. In this review, we summarize recent progress made in elucidating the cold-signaling pathways, especially the C-repeat binding factor-dependent pathway, and describe the regulatory function of the crucial components of plant cold signaling. We also discuss the unsolved questions that should be the focus of future work.
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- Jingyan Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
- Crops Research Institute, Tianjin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Tianjin 300384, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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Mahboubi A, Niittylä T. Sucrose transport and carbon fluxes during wood formation. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2018; 164:67-81. [PMID: 29572842 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.12729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2018] [Revised: 03/05/2018] [Accepted: 03/15/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Wood biosynthesis defines the chemical and structural properties of wood. The metabolic pathways that produce the precursors of wood cell wall polymers have a central role in defining wood properties. To make rational design of wood properties feasible, we need not only to understand the cell wall biosynthetic machinery, but also how sucrose transport and metabolism in developing wood connect to cell wall biosynthesis and how they respond to genetic and environmental cues. Here, we review the current understanding of the sucrose transport and primary metabolism pathways leading to the precursors of cell wall biosynthesis in woody plant tissues. We present both old, persistent questions and new emerging themes with a focus on wood formation in trees and draw upon evidence from the xylem tissues of herbaceous plants when it is relevant.
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- Amir Mahboubi
- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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