The LNK Gene Family: At the Crossroad between Light Signaling and the Circadian Clock.

ABSTRACT: Light signaling pathways interact with the circadian clock to help organisms synchronize physiological and developmental processes to periodic environmental cycles. The plant photoreceptors responsible for clock resetting have been characterized, but signaling components that link the photoreceptors to the clock remain to be identified. Members of the family of NIGHT LIGHT⁻INDUCIBLE AND CLOCK-REGULATED (LNK) genes play key roles linking light regulation of gene expression to the control of daily and seasonal rhythms in Arabidopsis thaliana. Particularly, LNK1 and LNK2 were shown to control circadian rhythms, photomorphogenic responses, and photoperiod-dependent flowering time. Here we analyze the role of the four members of the LNK family in Arabidopsis i

SUBMITTER: de Leone MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6356500 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature