How do circadian rhythms shape the responses of plants to climate change?

昼夜节律如何影响植物对气候变化的反应？

• 批准号: 2749745
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of East Anglia
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2749745
• 关键词: How; do; circadian; rhythms; shape

Living organisms can tell the time. This is because they contain circadian clocks, which produce a cellular measure of the time of day. In plants including crops, circadian rhythms are of crucial importance because they impact growth rates, metabolism, developmental programmes and stress tolerance. Therefore, circadian regulation has an incredibly pervasive influence upon plant life that affects crop performance. We need to know how circadian rhythms adapt plants to their naturally fluctuating environments, to take advantage of the incredible recent progress in understanding the molecular structure of circadian clocks. We do not know how environmental alterations that are being caused by climate change will affect the important contribution that circadian regulation makes to plant performance in nature.This project will contribute to these major questions by investigating how future climate scenarios affect plant physiology and development through their effects upon circadian regulation. The novel biological insights from this project will help to better understand how plants respond and adapt to changes in temperature, and contribute to the future development of crops that are more resilient to climate change.

生物体可以分辨时间。这是因为它们包含生物钟，生物钟产生一天中时间的细胞测量。在包括作物在内的植物中，昼夜节律至关重要，因为它们影响生长速率、代谢、发育程序和胁迫耐受性。因此，昼夜节律调节对植物生命具有令人难以置信的普遍影响，从而影响作物表现。我们需要知道昼夜节律如何使植物适应自然波动的环境，以便利用最近在理解生物钟分子结构方面取得的令人难以置信的进展。我们不知道气候变化引起的环境变化将如何影响昼夜节律调节对自然界植物性能的重要贡献。本项目将通过调查未来气候情景如何通过对昼夜节律调节的影响影响植物生理和发育，为这些主要问题做出贡献。该项目的新生物学见解将有助于更好地了解植物如何应对和适应温度变化，并有助于未来开发更能适应气候变化的作物。