Circadian Clock Gates Verticillium dahliae Defence in Cotton by Modulating JAZs Expression
Ping Wang, Mingming Liu, Chenyu Zhao, Qiaojia Lu, Shiqi Gao, Lijun Guo, Yuzhe Li, Jinping Wan, Li Yuan, Feifei Yi, Chaowei Cai, Jinggao Liu, C. Robertson McClung, Xiao Zhang, Xiao Liu, Xiaodong Xu, Yingfan Cai, Qiguang Xie · 2026
Read Circadian Clock Gates Verticillium dahliae Defence in Cotton by Modulating JAZs Expression by Ping Wang, Mingming Liu, Chenyu Zhao, Qiaojia Lu, Shiqi Gao, Lijun Guo, Yuzhe Li, Jinping Wan, Li Yuan, Feifei Yi, Chaowei Cai, Jinggao Liu, C. Robertson McClung, Xiao Zhang, Xiao Liu, Xiaodong Xu, Yingfan Cai, Qiguang Xie (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13394605.txt.
Description
Ping Wang and co-authors show, in 2026, that the daily clock in cotton plants times their defence against a soil fungus. The fungus, Verticillium dahliae, wilts cotton and cuts yield. Night-time resistance proved strongest, shaped by microbes around roots and by a hormone signal named jasmonic acid. A clock part named GhLUX held down brake genes called JAZ, which freed the hormone signal at night.
Plants with extra GhLUX fought the fungus better in field trials. They also gave more fibre, and the fibre was of better quality. Attack by the fungus sped the clock up and disturbed night microbes. The authors suggest clock tuning could guard crops without trading away harvest.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ping Wang, Mingming Liu, Chenyu Zhao, Qiaojia Lu, Shiqi Gao, Lijun Guo, Yuzhe Li, Jinping Wan, Li Yuan, Feifei Yi, Chaowei Cai, Jinggao Liu, C. Robertson McClung, Xiao Zhang, Xiao Liu, Xiaodong Xu, Yingfan Cai, Qiguang Xie |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 82211 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |