..., a circadian clock component, functions as a thermosensor. ELF3 regulates thermoresponsive hypocotyl elongation in part through its cellular localization. The temperature sensitivity of ELF3 depends on the length of a polyglutamine region, explaining how plant temperature responses vary between species...

... metabolic health in mammals including human beings. A growing body of evidence suggests that the circadian clock system ensures temporal orchestration of lipid homeostasis, and that perturbation of such diurnal regulation leads to the development of metabolic disorders comprising obesity and type 2 diabetes...

...Minnie Fu; Xiaoyong Yang The endogenous circadian clock is a key regulator of daily metabolic processes. On the other hand, circadian clocks in a broad range of tissues can be tuned by extrinsic and intrinsic metabolic cues. The bidirectional interaction between circadian clocks and metabolism...

...T.K. Tamai; A.J. Carr; D. Whitmore In the classical view of circadian clock organization, the daily rhythms of most organisms were thought to be regulated by a central, ‘master’ pacemaker, usually located within neural structures of the animal. However, with the results of experiments performed...

...J. Hartwell A circadian clock optimizes many aspects of plant biology relative to the light/dark cycle. One example is the circadian control of primary metabolism and CO 2 fixation in plants that carry out a metabolic adaptation of photosynthesis called CAM (crassulacean acid metabolism...

...N. Price-Lloyd; M. Elvin; C. Heintzen The metronomic predictability of the environment has elicited strong selection pressures for the evolution of endogenous circadian clocks. Circadian clocks drive molecular and behavioural rhythms that approximate the 24 h periodicity of our environment. Found...