The Impact of Domestication on the Circadian Clock

Ekaterina Shor, Rachel M. Green*

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Abstract

A recent publication shows that, during their domestication and spread from Equatorial South America, circadian rhythms of tomatoes have been modified. The modifications have resulted in tomato plants that are adapted to growing under the long day conditions characteristic of summers at higher latitudes.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)281-283
Number of pages3
JournalTrends in Plant Science
Volume21
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2016

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank David Greenberg and two anonymous referees for their comments and suggestions to improve the manuscript. We are grateful for grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Israel Science Foundation (ISF 649/12), and apologize to the many researchers whose work we were not able to cite individually.

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