- Day length is a key indicator of seasonal information that determines major patterns of behavior in plants and animals. Photoperiodism has been described in plants for about 100 years, but the underlying molecular mechanisms of day length perception and signal transduction in many systems are not well understood. In trees, photoperiod perception plays a major role in growth cessation during the autumn as well as activating the resumption of shoot growth in the spring, both processes controlled by FLOWERING LOCUS T2 (FT2) expression levels and critical for the survival of perennial plants over winter [1-4]. It has been shown that the conserved role of poplar orthologs to Arabidopsis CONSTANS (CO) directly activates FT2 expression [1, 5]. Overexpression of poplar CO is, however, not sufficient to sustain FT2 expression under short days [5] , pointing to the presence of an additional short-day-dependent FT2 repression pathway in poplar. We find that night length information is transmitted via the expression level of a poplar clock gene,Day length is a key indicator of seasonal information that determines major patterns of behavior in plants and animals. Photoperiodism has been described in plants for about 100 years, but the underlying molecular mechanisms of day length perception and signal transduction in many systems are not well understood. In trees, photoperiod perception plays a major role in growth cessation during the autumn as well as activating the resumption of shoot growth in the spring, both processes controlled by FLOWERING LOCUS T2 (FT2) expression levels and critical for the survival of perennial plants over winter [1-4]. It has been shown that the conserved role of poplar orthologs to Arabidopsis CONSTANS (CO) directly activates FT2 expression [1, 5]. Overexpression of poplar CO is, however, not sufficient to sustain FT2 expression under short days [5] , pointing to the presence of an additional short-day-dependent FT2 repression pathway in poplar. We find that night length information is transmitted via the expression level of a poplar clock gene, LATE ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL 2 (LHY2), which controls FT2 expression. Repression of FT2 is a function of the night extension and LHY2 expression level. We show that LHY2 is necessary and sufficient to activate night length repressive signaling. We propose that the photoperiodic control of shoot growth in poplar involves a balance between FT2 activating and repressing pathways. Our results show that poplar relies on night length measurement to determine photoperiodism through interaction between light signaling pathways and the circadian clock.…
MetadatenAuthor details: | Jose M. Ramos-Sanchez, Paolo M. Triozzi, Daniel Alique, Feng Geng, Mingjun Gao, Katja E. Jaeger, Philip Anthony WiggeORCiDGND, Isabel AllonaORCiD, Mariano Perales |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.003 |
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ISSN: | 0960-9822 |
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ISSN: | 1879-0445 |
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Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31257141 |
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Title of parent work (English): | Current biology |
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Publisher: | Cell Press |
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Place of publishing: | Cambridge |
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Publication type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
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Date of first publication: | 2019/06/27 |
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Publication year: | 2019 |
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Release date: | 2021/01/05 |
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Volume: | 29 |
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Issue: | 14 |
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Number of pages: | 9 |
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First page: | 2402 |
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Last Page: | 2406 |
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Funding institution: | Ministerio de Educacion Ciencia y Tecnologia of SpainGerman Research Foundation (DFG) [AGL2014-53352-R]; Ministerio de Ciencia Innovacion y Universidades of Spain [PGC2018-093922-B-100, PCIG13-GA-2013-631630]; European CommissionEuropean Commission Joint Research Centre; European UnionEuropean Union (EU); Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain Ramon y Cajal programme [RYC-2012-10194]; Ministerio de Educacion, Deporte y Cultura of Spain [FPU12/01648]; Ph.D. program of CEI campus of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain [L1UF00-47-JX9FYF]; Agencia Estatal de Investigacion of Spain [SEV-2016-0672]; Gatsby Foundation, England; Leibniz Association, Germany |
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Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie |
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DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie |
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Peer review: | Referiert |
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Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
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License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
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