Research in the past decade has uncovered new and surprising information about the
pathways of starch synthesis and degradation. This includes the discovery of previously …

A major challenge for biology is to extend our understanding of molecular regulation from
the simplified conditions of the laboratory to ecologically relevant environments. Tractable …

Starch serves functions that range over a timescale of minutes to years, according to the cell
type from which it is derived. In guard cells, starch is rapidly mobilized by the synergistic …

Vegetation cover plays a vital role in stabilizing the soil structure, thereby contributing to
surface erosion control. Surface vegetation acts as a shelterbelt that controls the flow …

Plants grow and transpire water during the day and night. Recent work highlights the idea
that night-time transpirational water loss is a consequence of allowing respiratory CO 2 to …

Plant stress responses involve a suite of genetically encoded mechanisms triggered by real-
time interactions with their surrounding environment. Although sophisticated regulatory …

Plants accumulate reserves in the daytime to support growth at night. Circadian regulation of
diel reserve turnover was investigated by profiling starch, sugars, glucose 6‐phosphate …

Circadian (∼ 24 h) clocks are self‐sustained endogenous oscillators with which organisms
keep track of daily and seasonal time. Circadian clocks frequently rely on interlocked …

Arabidopsis plants store part of the carbon fixed by photosynthesis as starch to sustain
growth at night. Two competing hypotheses have been proposed to explain this diel starch …

Diel starch turnover responds rapidly to changes in the light regime. We investigated if these
responses require changes in the temporal dynamics of the circadian clock. Arabidopsis …