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Distinct roles of GIGANTEA in promoting flowering and regulating circadian rhythms in Arabidopsis.
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| Author | Mizoguchi, Tsuyoshi Wright, Louisa Fujiwara, Sumire Cremer, Frédéric Lee, Karen J. I. Onouchi, Hitoshi Mouradov, Aidyn Fowler, Sarah L. Kamada, Hiroshi Putterill, Joanna J. Coupland, George |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | The circadian clock acts as the timekeeping mechanism in photoperiodism. In Arabidopsis thaliana, a circadian clock-controlled flowering pathway comprising the genes GIGANTEA (GI), CONSTANS (CO), and FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) promotes flowering specifically under long days. Within this pathway, GI regulates circadian rhythms and flowering and acts earlier in the hierarchy than CO and FT, suggesting that GI might regulate flowering indirectly by affecting the control of circadian rhythms. We studied the relationship between the roles of GI in flowering and the circadian clock using late elongated hypocotyl circadian clock associated1 double mutants, which are impaired in circadian clock function, plants overexpressing GI (35S:GI), and gi mutants. These experiments demonstrated that GI acts between the circadian oscillator and CO to promote flowering by increasing CO and FT mRNA abundance. In addition, circadian rhythms in expression of genes that do not control flowering are altered in 35S:GI and gi mutant plants under continuous light and continuous darkness, and the phase of expression of these genes is changed under diurnal cycles. Therefore, GI plays a general role in controlling circadian rhythms, and this is different from its effect on the amplitude of expression of CO and FT. Functional GI:green fluorescent protein is localized to the nucleus in transgenic Arabidopsis plants, supporting the idea that GI regulates flowering in the nucleus. We propose that the effect of GI on flowering is not an indirect effect of its role in circadian clock regulation, but rather that GI also acts in the nucleus to more directly promote the expression of flowering-time genes. |
| Starting Page | 633 |
| Ending Page | 642 |
| Page Count | 10 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.plantcell.org/content/plantcell/17/8/2255.full.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:1222044/component/escidoc:1222043/mizoguchi_coupland_plant_cell_2005.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 16006578v1 |
| Volume Number | 17 |
| Issue Number | 8 |
| Journal | The Plant cell |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Cell Nucleus Circadian Clocks Circadian Rhythms Green Fluorescent Proteins Oscillator Device Component Promotion (action) Sleep Disorders, Circadian Rhythm mutant photoperiodism |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
