Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Continuous dynamic adjustment of the plant circadian oscillator

  • Alex A. R. Webb,
  • Motohide Seki,
  • Akiko Satake,
  • Camila Caldana

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08398-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Biological circadian rhythms maintain a period close to 24 h in coordination with the Earth’s fixed rotational period. Here Webb et al. discuss how external cues continuously adjust phase and period, viewing the oscillator as a dynamically-adjusted plastic system rather than tightly-coupled cogs in a mechanical clock.