Diurnal and circadian rhythms in the tomato transcriptome and their modulation by cryptochrome photoreceptors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Circadian clocks are internal molecular time-keeping mechanisms that provide living organisms with the ability to adjust their growth and physiology and to anticipate diurnal environmental changes. Circadian clocks, without exception, respond to light and, in plants, light is the most potent and best characterized entraining stimulus. The capacity of plants to respond to light is achieved through a number of photo-perceptive proteins including cryptochromes and phytochromes. There is considerable experimental evidence demonstrating the roles of photoreceptors in providing light input to the clock.

Methodology

In order to identify genes regulated by diurnal and circadian rhythms, and to establish possible functional relations between photoreceptors and the circadia

SUBMITTER: Facella P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2474677 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature