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NATURE
Volume 515, Issue 7527, Pages 419-+Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/nature13919
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- HFSP long-term Fellowship [LT00017/2008-L]
- JST PRESTO [11103346]
- JSPS KAKENHI [22770036, 25650097]
- Sumitomo Foundation
- Nakatani Foundation
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [R01 GM056006, GM067837]
- [19060012]
- [19060016]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25113005, 25650097, 22770036] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Many organisms rely on a circadian clock system to adapt to daily and seasonal environmental changes. The mammalian circadian clock consists of a central clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus that has tightly coupled neurons and synchronizes other clocks in peripheral tissues(1,2). Plants also have a circadian clock, but plant circadian clock function has long been assumed to be uncoupled(3). Only a few studies have been able to show weak, local coupling among cells'. Here, by implementing two novel techniques, we have performed a comprehensive tissue-specific analysis of leaf tissues, and show that the vasculature and mesophyll clocks asymmetrically regulate each other in Arabidopsis. The circadian clock in the vasculature has characteristics distinct from other tissues, cycles robustly without environmental cues, and affects circadian clock regulation in other tissues. Furthermore, we found that vasculature-enriched genes that are rhythmically expressed are preferentially expressed in the evening, whereas rhythmic mesophyll-enriched genes tend to be expressed in the morning. Our results set the stage for a deeper understanding of how the vasculature circadian clock in plants regulates key physiological responses such as flowering time.
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