CONSTANS,a key-player connecting day length to seed size
Institution:
1. National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India;1. Climate Change Cluster, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia;2. Department of Biological Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada;3. Department of Engineering, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada;1. Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi 110021, India;2. Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500046, India;1. Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea;2. Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea;3. Bio/Energy R&D Center, Korea Institute of Energy Research, Gwangju 61003, Korea;1. National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, P.O. Box No. 10531, New Delhi - 110 067, India;1. Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan 666303, China;1. Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany;2. Signalling Research Centres BIOSS and CIBSS, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
Abstract:
Plants sense oscillation in the day length as a reliable seasonal cue to drive optimal vegetative and reproductive growth. A recent study by Yu et al. has revealed how day length regulates seed size through CONSTANS. The CONSTANS–APETALA2 module enables plants to optimize their reproductive growth based on their photoperiod response type.
