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Role of the Circadian Clock in Cold Acclimation and Winter Dormancy in Perennial Plants

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Seasonal variation is a strong cue directing the growth and development of plants. It is particularly important for perennials growing in temperate and boreal regions where woody plants must become dormant to survive freezing winter temperatures. Shortening of the photoperiod induces growth cessation, bud set and a first degree of cold acclimation in most woody plants. The subsequent drop in temperature then produces a greater tolerance to cold and, in deciduous trees, leaf senescence and fall. Trees must time their periods of dormancy accurately with their environment. Circadian clocks underlie this ability, allowing organisms to predict regular, daily changes in their environment as well as longer term seasonal changes. This chapter provides an update on the plant clock in a model annual, thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), and further summarizes recent advances about the clock in perennial plants and its involvement in their annual growth cycles, which allows trees to withstand cold and freezing temperatures. Moreover, we outline our views on areas where future work on the circadian clock is necessary to gain insight into the life of a tree.

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Abbreviations

LL:

Continuous light

CDL:

Critical daylength

EC:

Evening complex

LD:

Long day

QTL:

Quantitative trait loci

SD:

Short day

TTFL:

Transcriptional–translational feedback loops

ZT:

Zeitgeber time

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We gratefully acknowledge support from our funding agencies. Work in M.E.E.’s group was supported by Stiftelsen Nils och Dorthi Troëdssons forskningsfond, Carl Trygger Foundation for Scientific Research, the Kempe Foundations, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA), the Swedish Research Council (VR), the Swedish Research Council Formas and the Berzelii Centre for forest biotechnology. M.E.E. is a VINNMER fellow supported by VINNOVA and the EU. Work in I.A.’s group was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness grant AGL2011–22625/FOR and the Plant KBBE project PIM2010PKB-00702 from the EU. C.I. was supported by FONDECYT grant no. 1110831 (CONICYT—Chile). N.T. was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (no. 25850124). J.M.R-S was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport FPU Fellowship FPU12/01648. M.J. was supported by Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. We are grateful for technical assistance with delayed fluorescence from Dr. Manuela Jurca, and to Tamara Hernandez-Verdeja and Mariano Perales for critical reading of the chapter.

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