Ljung, Karin
- Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
The circadian clock coordinates an organism's growth, development and physiology with environmental factors. One illuminating example is the rhythmic growth of hypocotyls and cotyledons in Arabidopsis thaliana. Such daily oscillations in leaf position are often referred to as sleep movements or nyctinasty. Here, we report that plantlets of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha show analogous rhythmic movements of thallus lobes, and that the circadian clock controls this rhythm, with auxin a likely output pathway affecting these movements. The mechanisms of this circadian clock are partly conserved as compared to angiosperms, with homologs to the core clock genes PRR, RVE and TOC1 forming a core transcriptional feedback loop also in M. polymorpha.
Published in
Scientific Reports
2020, volume: 10, number: 1, article number: 8658
Publisher: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Botany
Developmental Biology
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65372-8
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/106819