ReviewPlant, cell & environment2017
Dancing in the dark: darkness as a signal in plants.
Review in Plant, cell & environment, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.
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45 citing papers in PubMed, 94 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The Metabolic Awakening of Barley Seedlings: A Time-Resolved View of How Germination and Light Shape Tissue-Specific Metabolic Networks.Plant direct · 2026Article
- Decoding darkness by seeking photoreceptor functions with and without light.Nature plants · 2026Review
- Genome-wide identification of the PIF gene family in broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) highlights PmPIF5 as a candidate regulator of photoperiod responses.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
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- Genome-scale transcriptome augmentation during Arabidopsis thaliana photomorphogenesis.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Primary metabolism determines the outcome of salicylic acid-mediated immune induction.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Metabolism in Sync: The Circadian Clock, a Central Hub for Light-Driven Chloroplastic and Mitochondrial Entrainment.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Light quality-dependent roles of REVEILLE proteins in the circadian system.Plant direct · 2024Article
- EMS-induced mutagenesis in Choy sum (Brassica chinensis var. parachinensis) and selection for low light tolerance using abiotic stress indices.BMC plant biology · 2023Article
- Night-time water relations and gas exchange in cut shoots of five boreal dwarf shrub species: impact of soil water availability.Physiology and molecular biology of plants : an international journal of functional plant biology · 2023Article
- Role of plastids and mitochondria in the early development of seedlings in dark growth conditions.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Review
- Effect of the Number of Dark Days and Planting Density on the Health-Promoting Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Capacity of Mustard (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Role of E3 Ubiquitin Ligases in Chloroplast Function.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- The circadian clock mutant lhy cca1 elf3 paces starch mobilization to dawn despite severely disrupted circadian clock function.Plant physiology · 2022Article
- GENOMES UNCOUPLED1 plays a key role during the de-etiolation process in Arabidopsis.The New phytologist · 2022Article
- Environment-mediated mutagenetic interference on genetic stabilization and circadian rhythm in plants.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2022Review
- Transcriptome, metabolome and suppressor analysis reveal an essential role for the ubiquitin-proteasome system in seedling chloroplast development.BMC plant biology · 2022Article
- Combined metabolomic and transcriptomic analysis reveals key components ofFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
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Abstract
Daily cycles of light and dark provide an organizing principle and temporal constraints under which life on Earth evolved. While light is often the focus of plant studies, it is only half the story. Plants continuously adjust to their surroundings, taking both dawn and dusk as cues to organize their growth, development and metabolism to appropriate times of day. In this review, we examine the effects of darkness on plant physiology and growth. We describe the similarities and differences between seedlings grown in the dark versus those grown in light-dark cycles, and the evolution of etiolated growth. We discuss the integration of the circadian clock into other processes, looking carefully at the points of contact between clock genes and growth-promoting gene-regulatory networks in temporal gating of growth. We also examine daily starch accumulation and degradation, and the possible contribution of dark-specific metabolic controls in regulating energy and growth. Examining these studies together reveals a complex and continuous balancing act, with many signals, dark included, contributing information and guiding the plant through its life cycle. The extraordinary interconnection between light and dark is manifest during cycles of day and night and during seedling emergence above versus below the soil surface.
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