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Mind the Clock

Shigeru Hanano and Seth J. Davis

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Recent progress in plant genomics allows us to investigate genetic and physiological changes in genome-wide gene expression.^1,2 In the past years, a large-scale service for the global expression profiling in Arabidopsis, AtGenExpress, has been designed and coordinated.^2,3 By using these multiple datasets, questions about complicated biological networks are being resolved in powerful ways. For example, microarray analyses reveal orchestrated transcript expressions during circadian and diurnal time courses.^4-6 It was estimated in this work that up to 20% of transcripts are circadian regulated, implying that the clock impacts most botanical processes, including light, temperature, and hormone signalling, and much of cellular metabolism.^4,6 In turn, external cues are well-known to affect the circadian system.^7,8 For example, we reported phytohormone regulation.⁹ Thus, we imagined that in the AtGenExpress datasets inclusive of stress- and hormone-treated experiments, clock genes might be altered in expression levels.

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Shigeru Hanano

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln, Germany.

Seth J. Davis

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne

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