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

有生命的有机体可以报时。这是因为它们含有生物钟，可以产生一天中时间的细胞测量。在包括农作物在内的植物中，昼夜节律至关重要，因为它们影响生长速度、新陈代谢、发育计划和逆境耐受性。因此，昼夜节律对影响作物表现的植物生命有着令人难以置信的普遍影响。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昼夜节律的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对植物在自然界中表现的重要贡献。本项目将通过研究未来气候情景如何通过对昼夜节律的影响来影响植物的生理和发育，从而对这些主要问题做出贡献。来自该项目的新颖的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，并为未来开发对气候变化更具弹性的作物做出贡献。

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.