Abstract
Circadian clock not only functions as a cellular time-keeping mechanism, but also acts as a master regulator to coordinate the tradeoff between plant growth and defense in higher plants by timing a few kinds of phytohormone biosynthesis and signaling, including jasmonic acid (JA). Notably, circadian clock and JA pathway have recently been shown to intertwine with each other to ensure and optimize the plant fitness in an ever-changing environment. It has clearly demonstrated that there are multiple crosstalk pathways between circadian clock and JA at both transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. In this scenario, circadian clock temporally modulates JA-mediated plant development events, herbivory resistance and susceptibility to pathogen. By contrast, the JA signaling regulates clock activity in a feedback manner. In this review, we summarized the cross networks between circadian clock and JA pathway at both transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. We proposed that the novel crosstalks between circadian clock and JA pathway not only benefit for the understanding the JA-associated circadian outputs including leaf senescence, biotic, and abiotic defenses, but also put timing as a new key factor to investigate JA pathway in the future.
Highlights
Circadian clock, an internal timekeeping mechanism, regulates plant growth and development by synchronizing the internal biological and physiological events with the external daily light-dark cycle, to enhance fitness of plants [1,2]
CLOCK-ASSOCIATED 1 (CCA1)/LATE ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL (LHY) can repress the expression of PRR7 and PRR9, by directly binding to the evening element (EE) within their respective promoters [4]
PRR9/7/5 proteins sequentially suppress the expression of CCA1/LHY from dawn to dusk [5,6]
Summary
An internal timekeeping mechanism, regulates plant growth and development by synchronizing the internal biological and physiological events with the external daily light-dark cycle, to enhance fitness of plants [1,2]. EXPRESSION 1 (TOC1) which is the founding member of the PSEUDO-RESPONSE REGULATOR (PRR) family, and CIRCADIAN CLOCK-ASSOCIATED 1 (CCA1)/LATE ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL (LHY), two MYB-domain containing transcriptional repressors, with the expression peak at dawn [3,4]. PRR9/7/5 proteins sequentially suppress the expression of CCA1/LHY from dawn to dusk [5,6]. Another important component is evening complexis(EC), composed by EARLY (ELF3), In the evening, another important component evening complex (EC), FLOWERING composed by 3EARLY. EC, ELF3 alone can regulate hypocotyl elongation by physically interacting with PIF4 protein to clock regulates biological processes mediated by hormones through biosynthesis, inhibit its transcriptional activity [17]. Such as the defense hormones, salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonic acid (JA) [18,19]
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