GIGANTEA as a Central Integrator of Circadian Timing, Stress Physiology, and Developmental Trade-Offs

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2026
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Abstract
GIGANTEA (GI) has emerged as a context-dependent regulatory hub that translates circadian timing into developmental and stress-responsive outputs. Although first characterized for its role in photoperiodic flowering, GI is now recognized as a multifunctional scaffold that integrates light cues, metabolic status, hormone signaling, proteostasis, and chromatin regulation. Here, we synthesize recent mechanistic and conceptual advances to show how GI-centered networks operate across molecular, physiological, and systems levels. We first examine the structural and biochemical features that enable GI to function as a versatile interaction platform, together with the dynamic regulation of its abundance, localization, and stability. We then discuss how GI integrates light and metabolic inputs into the circadian system to gate photoperiodic flowering and seasonal development. Beyond flowering, GI coordinates abiotic stress responses-including drought, salinity, and low temperature-through phase-gated signaling, partner switching, and stress-associated chromatin reprogramming. We further highlight epigenetic and post-translational mechanisms that fine-tune GI activity and compare recurrently conserved temporal features with lineage-specific downstream outputs across major crops. Together, these studies support a systems-level view in which GI acts as a regulatory allocation hub that distributes signaling capacity among competing pathways, thereby mediating growth-stress trade-offs and seasonal adaptation.
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Authors Zhengyang Shen, Hongbo Du, Liting Duan, Nina He, Meiting Qi, Wen Bai, Qiaojuan Gui, Yuwei Zhao
Journal Journal of experimental botany
Year 2026
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10.1093/jxb/erag229
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https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erag229
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