Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

LUX ARRHYTHMO mediates crosstalk between the circadian clock and defense in Arabidopsis

  • Chong Zhang,
  • Min Gao,
  • Nicholas C. Seitz,
  • William Angel,
  • Amelia Hallworth,
  • Linda Wiratan,
  • Omar Darwish,
  • Nadim Alkharouf,
  • Teklu Dawit,
  • Daniela Lin,
  • Riki Egoshi,
  • Xiping Wang,
  • C. Robertson McClung,
  • Hua Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10485-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Circadian control of plant defence likely reflects plants’ ability to coordinate development and defense. Here, Zhang et al. show that LUX regulates stomatal defense and SA/JA signaling, leading to broad-spectrum disease resistance, and that JA signaling can, in turn, regulate clock activity.