Plant Circadian Clocks: Structure, Function, and Interactions with Other Signalling Systems
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant, Algae and Fungi Cell Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 9611
Special Issue Editor
2. Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary
Interests: plants; Arabidopsis thaliana; light-regulated gene expression; photoreceptors; photomorphogenesis; circadian clock; clock-regulated gene expression; flowering time; photoperiodism
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Dear Colleagues,
Circadian rhythms have been first documented in plants; still, identification of key components of the plant clock lagged behind those of the animal, fungal, or even the prokaryotic oscillator. However, intense and fruitful research in the last two decades provided us with an enormous amount of data and information on the field of plant chronobiology. Now we know that the oscillator in plants has probably one of the most complicated structure among eukaryotes in terms of the number of elements and the number or regulatory loops operated by these. Novel mechanisms adjusting the basic transcriptional/translational oscillation have been discovered, such as regulated proteolysis or the control of gene expression at chromatin level. Identification of the role of signalling pathways across cells, tissues, and organs on the organism-level circadian regulation has moved the plant clock field closer to those based on other model organisms.
In this Special Issue, we would like to collect research and review papers, which illustrate what we achieved in the last 20 years, show the present state of the field, identify key questions and future research directions, and last but not least demonstrate how the functional interaction of the clock with other signalling systems (light, hormones, a/biotic stress, flowering) contributes to the fitness of plants.
We are prepared for the hard editorial work and hope to receive a great number of manuscripts reflecting the richness of our beautiful and exciting field.
Best regards,
Dr. László Kozma-Bognár
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant
- circadian clock
- temporal control of transription, chromatin state
- temporal control of proteolysis
- photoperiodic flowering
- temporal control of physuiology
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