TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrari, Camilla
A1  - Proost, Sebastian
A1  - Janowski, Marcin Andrzej
A1  - Becker, Jörg
A1  - Nikoloski, Zoran
A1  - Bhattacharya, Debashish
A1  - Price, Dana
A1  - Tohge, Takayuki
A1  - Bar-Even, Arren
A1  - Fernie, Alisdair R.
A1  - Stitt, Mark
A1  - Mutwil, Marek
T1  - Kingdom-wide comparison reveals the evolution of diurnal gene expression in Archaeplastida
JF  - Nature Communications
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08703-2
SN  - 2041-1723
VL  - 10
PB  - Nature Publ. Group
CY  - London
ER  -