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Nighttime Sugar Starvation Orchestrates Gibberellin Biosynthesis and Plant Growth in Arabidopsis

Eleonora Paparelli, Sandro Parlanti, Silvia Gonzali, Giacomo Novi, Lorenzo Mariotti, Nello Ceccarelli, Joost T. van Dongen, Katharina Kölling, Samuel C. Zeeman, Pierdomenico Perata
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Published October 2013. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.113.115519

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A plant’s eventual size depends on the integration of its genetic program with environmental cues, which vary on a daily basis. Both efficient carbon metabolism and the plant hormone gibberellin are required to guarantee optimal plant growth. Yet, little is known about the interplay between carbon metabolism and gibberellins that modulates plant growth. Here, we show that sugar starvation in Arabidopsis thaliana arising from inefficient starch metabolism at night strongly reduces the expression of ent-kaurene synthase, a key regulatory enzyme for gibberellin synthesis, the following day. Our results demonstrate that plants integrate the efficiency of photosynthesis over a period of days, which is transduced into a daily rate of gibberellin biosynthesis. This enables a plant to grow to a size that is compatible with its environment.

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    GA
    gibberellin
    CO2
    carbon dioxide
    RNAi
    RNA interference
    Col-0
    Columbia-0
    • Received June 27, 2013.
    • Revised August 26, 2013.
    • Accepted September 16, 2013.
    • Published October 4, 2013.
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    Eleonora Paparelli, Sandro Parlanti, Silvia Gonzali, Giacomo Novi, Lorenzo Mariotti, Nello Ceccarelli, Joost T. van Dongen, Katharina Kölling, Samuel C. Zeeman, Pierdomenico Perata
    The Plant Cell Oct 2013, 25 (10) 3760-3769; DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.115519

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    Nighttime Sugar Starvation Orchestrates Gibberellin Biosynthesis and Plant Growth in Arabidopsis
    Eleonora Paparelli, Sandro Parlanti, Silvia Gonzali, Giacomo Novi, Lorenzo Mariotti, Nello Ceccarelli, Joost T. van Dongen, Katharina Kölling, Samuel C. Zeeman, Pierdomenico Perata
    The Plant Cell Oct 2013, 25 (10) 3760-3769; DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.115519
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