ArticlePlant signaling & behavior2009
Evolutionarily conserved photoperiod mechanisms in plants: when did plant photoperiodic signaling appear?
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- Genome-wide characterization and expression analysis of the CONSTANS-like gene family ofPeerJ · 2025Article
- CONSTANS, a HUB for all seasons: How photoperiod pervades plant physiology regulatory circuits.The Plant cell · 2024Review
- Bright as day and dark as night: light-dependant energy for lipid biosynthesis and production in microalgae.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2022Review
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- Photoperiodic control of sugar release during the floral transition: What is the role of sugars in the florigenic signal?Plant signaling & behavior · 2015Article
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- Prevalence, evolution, and cis-regulation of diel transcription in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2014Article
- Photoperiodic control of carbon distribution during the floral transition in Arabidopsis.The Plant cell · 2014Article
- A contribution to the study of plant development evolution based on gene co-expression networks.Frontiers in plant science · 2013Article
- How the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii keeps time.Protoplasma · 2010Review
- Light and temperature sensing and signaling in induction of bud dormancy in woody plants.Plant molecular biology · 2010Article
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Abstract
Day-length and the circadian clock control critical aspects of plant development such as the onset of reproduction by the photoperiodic pathway. CONSTANS (CO) regulates the expression of a florigenic mobile signal from leaves to the apical meristem and thus is central to the regulation of photoperiodic flowering. This regulatory control is present in all higher plants, but the time in evolution when it arose was unknown. We have shown that the genomes of green microalgae encode members of the CONSTANS-like (COL) protein family. One of these genes, the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii CO homolog (CrCO), can complement the co mutation in Arabidopsis. CrCO expression is controlled by the clock and photoperiod in Chlamydomonas and at the same time is involved in the correct timing of several circadian output processes such as the accumulation of starch or the coordination of cell growth and division. We have proposed that, since very early in the evolutionary lineage that gave rise to higher plants, CO homologs have been involved in the photoperiod control of important developmental processes, and that the recruitment of COL proteins in other roles may have been crucial for their evolutionary success.
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