Project description:This study aim to understand how the long and short day flowering pathways are integrated and the mechanism of photoperiod perception in rice. Trascriptome at different time points under LD and SD conditions reveal that photoperiodism in rice is controlled by the evening complex. Mutants in LUX ARRYTHMO (LUX) and EARLY FLOWERING3 (ELF3) orthologs abolish flowering. We show that light causes a rapid and sustained degradation of ELF3-1, and this response is dependent on phyB. ChIP-seq of ELF3 and LUX reveal that EC controls both LD and SD flowering pathways by directly binding and suppressing the expression of key floral repressors, including PRR7 orthologs and Ghd7.
Project description:This study aim to understand how the long and short day flowering pathways are integrated and the mechanism of photoperiod perception in rice. Trascriptome at different time points under LD and SD conditions reveal that photoperiodism in rice is controlled by the evening complex. Mutants in LUX ARRYTHMO (LUX) and EARLY FLOWERING3 (ELF3) orthologs abolish flowering. We show that light causes a rapid and sustained degradation of ELF3-1, and this response is dependent on phyB. ChIP-seq of ELF3 and LUX reveal that EC controls both LD and SD flowering pathways by directly binding and suppressing the expression of key floral repressors, including PRR7 orthologs and Ghd7.
Project description:The Evening Complex (EC) is a core component of the circadian clock, which represses target gene expression at the end of the day and integrates temperature information in order to coordinate environmental and endogenous signals. Despite its importance, the mechanism of EC function remains unknown. Here we show that the EC recruits repressive chromatin domains to regulate the evening transcriptome. The EC component EARLY FLOWERING 3 (ELF3) directly interacts with a protein from the Swi2/Snf2-Related 1 (SWR1) complex to control deposition of H2A.Z-nucleosomes at the EC target genes. The SWR1 components display a circadian oscillation in gene expression with a peak at dusk, suggesting that the circadian clock controls the expression and function of SWR1. In turn, SWR1 is required for the circadian clockwork as defects in SWR1 activity alters morning-expressed genes. The EC-SWR1 complex binds to the promoters of the core clock genes PSEUDORESPONSE REGULATOR 7 (PRR7) and PRR9 and catalyzes H2A.Z deposition coincident with their repression at dusk. This provides a mechanism by which the circadian clock temporally establishes repressive chromatin domains to shape oscillatory gene expression around dusk.
Project description:To determine how clock components are integrated with cellular pathways, affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP-MS) were used to identify proteins that co-precipitate with the evening complex, which is critical regulator of clock, growth, light and flowering pathways.