Antony Dodd - Circadian regulation of plant cell signalling

January 2020

  • Date: Jan 22, 2020
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Central Building
  • Room: Seminar Room
  • Host: Luiza Lane de Barros Dantas

Circadian rhythms are biological cycles with a period of about 24 h that persist in the absence of external cues. These rhythms are thought to provide a biological measure of the time of day. Circadian regulation has an incredibly pervasive influence upon plant life, regulating processes including photosynthesis, metabolism, growth, responses to environmental cues. Therefore, circadian regulation impacts traits of agricultural and ecological importance. My lab investigates signal transduction processes that participate in circadian regulation in plants. I will discuss work in my lab focusing on the integration of circadian timing cues with other types of environmental signals to regulate plant physiology, and aspects of the circadian regulation of signalling and metabolism of potential importance for agriculture.


Belbin FE, Hall GJ, Schanschieff FE, Archibald G, Form stone C, Dodd AN (2019). Plant circadian rhythms regulate the effectiveness of a glyphosate-based herbicide. Nature Communications 10, 3704.


Frank A, Matolli CC, Viana AJC, Hearn TJ, Kusakina J, Belbin FE, Wells Newman D, Yochikawa A, Cano-Ramirez DL, Chembath A, Cragg-Barber K, Haydon MJ, Hotta CT, Vincentz M, Webb AAR, Dodd AN (2018). Circadian entrainment in Arabidopsis by the sugar-responsive transcription factor bZIP63. Current Biol. 28, 2597-2606.


Cano-Ramirez DL, de Fraine TS, Griffiths OG, Dodd AN (2018). Photosynthesis and circadian rhythms regulate the buoyancy of marimo lake balls. Current Biol. 28, 869-870.


Belbin FE, Noordally ZB, Wetherill SJ, Atkins KA, Franklin KA, Dodd AN (2017) Integration of light and circadian signals that regulate chloroplast transcription by a nuclear‐encoded sigma factor. New Phytol. 213, 727-738.

Noordally ZB, Ishii K, Atkins KA, Wetherill SJ, Kusakina J, Walton EJ, Kato M , Azuma M, Tanaka K, Hanaoka M, Dodd AN (2013). Circadian control of chloroplast transcription by a nuclear-encoded timing signal. Science 339, 1316-1319.

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