Plants contain several tissue-specific decentralized but communicating ‘clocks’. These control developmental outputs in response to environmental change: the vasculature clock for photoperiodic control of flowering, and the epidermis clock for temperature-dependent elongation.
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McClung, C. Circadian clocks: Who knows where the time goes. Nature Plants 1, 15172 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2015.172
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