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Research Articles

Lou, P., S. Woody, K. Greenham, R. vanBuren, M. Colle, P.P. Edger, R. Sartor, Y. Zheng, N. Levendoski, J. Lim, C. So, B. Stovehken, T. Woody, J. Zhao, S. Shen, R.M. Amasino, & C.R. McClung. 2020. Genetic and genomic resources to study natural variation in Brassica rapa. Plant Direct 4(12): e00285 [Full Text]

Greenham, K., R.C. Sartor, S. Zorich, P. Lou, T.C. Mockler, & C.R. McClung. 2020. Expansion of the circadian transcriptome in Brassica rapa and genome wide diversification of paralog expression patterns.  eLIFE 9: e58993 [Full Text]

Leinonen, P.H., M.J. Salmela, K. Greenham, C.R. McClung, & J.H. Willis. 2020. Populations are differentiated in biological rhythms without explicit elevational clines in the plant Mimulus laciniatus. J. Biol. Rhythms 35: 452-464 [Full Text]

Guadagno, C.R., D. Millar, R. Lai, D.S. Mackay, J.R. Pleban, C.R. McClung, C. Weinig D.R. Wang & B.E. Ewers. 2020. Use of transcriptomic data to inform biophysical models via Bayesian networks. Ecol. Modelling 429: 109086 [Full Text]

Zhang, C., M. Gao, N.C. Seitz, W. Angel, A. Hallworth, L. Wiratan, O. Darwish, N. Alkharouf, T. Dawit, D. Lin, R. Egoshi, X. Wang, C.R. McClung, & H. Lu. 2019. LUX ARRHYTHMO mediates crosstalk between the circadian clock and defense in Arabidopsis. Nature Commun. 10:2543 [Full Text]

Park, H.J., D. Baek, J.-Y. Cha, X. Liao, S.-H. Kang, C.R. McClung, S.Y. Lee, D.-J. Yun & W.-Y. Kim.. 2019. HOS15 interacts with the histone deacetylase HDA9 and the Evening Complex to epigenetically regulate the floral activator GIGANTEA. Plant Cell 31:37-51.  [Full Text]

Kim, H., H.J. Kim, Q.T. Vu, S. Jung, C.R. McClung, S. Hong & H.G. Nam. 2018. Circadian control of ORE1 by PRR9 positively regulates leaf senescence in Arabidopsis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 115: 8448-8453 [Full Text]

Lee, B.-D., M.R. Kim, M.-Y. Kang, J.-Y. Cha, S.-H. Han, G.M. Nawkar, Y. Sakuraba, S.Y. Lee, T. Imaizumi, C.R. McClung, W.-Y. Kim & N.-C. Paek. 2018. The F-box protein FKF1 inhibits dimerization of COP1 in the control of photoperiodic flowering.  Nature Commun. 8: 2258 [Full Text]

Greenham, K., C.R. Guadagno, M.A. Gehan, T.C. Mockler, C. Weinig, B.E. Ewers & C.R. McClung. 2017. Temporal network analysis identifies early physiological and transcriptomic indicators of mild drought in Brassica rapa. eLIFE 6: e29655 [Full Text]

Greenham, K., P. Lou, J.R. Puzey, G. Kumar, C. Arnevik, H. Farid, J.H. Willis & C.R. McClung. 2017. Geographic variation of plant circadian clock function in natural and agricultural settings.  J. Biol. Rhythms. 32: 26-34 [Full Text]

Salmela, M.J., K. Greenham, P. Lou, C.R. McClung, B.E. Ewers & C. Weinig. 2016. Variation in circadian rhythms is maintained among and within populations in Boechera strict in Wyoming.  Plant Cell Environ. 39: 1293-1303 [Full Text]

Yarkhunova,, Y., C.E. Edwards, B.E. Ewers, R.L. Baker, T.L. Aston, C.R. McClung, P. Lou & C. Weinig. 2016. Selection during crop diversification involves correlated evolution of the circadian clock and ecophysiological traits in Brassica rapa.  New Phytol. 210: 133-144 [Full Text]

Greenham, K., P. Lou, H. Farid, S.E. Remsen & C.R. McClung. 2015. TRiP: Tracking Rhythms in Plants, an automated leaf movement analysis program for circadian period estimation.  Plant Methods 11: 33 [Full Text]

Xie, Q., P. Lou, V. Hermand, R. Aman, H.J. Park, D.-J Yun, W.Y. Kim, M.J. Salmela, B.E. Ewers, C. Weinig, S.L. Khan, D.L.P. Schaible, & C.R. McClung. 2015. Allelic polymorphism of GIGANTEA is responsible for naturally occurring variation in circadian period in Brassica rapa.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112: 3829-3834 [Full Text]

Review Articles

McClung, C.R.. 2021. Circadian clock components offer targets for crop domestication and improvement. Genes 12: 374. [Download Full Text]

McClung, C.R.. 2019. The plant circadian oscillator. Biology 8: 14. [Download Full Text]

Lu, H., C.R. McClung, & C. Zhang. 2017. Tick Tock: Circadian regulation of plant innate immunity. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 55: 287–311. [Download Full Text]

McClung, C.R., P. Lou, V. Hermand, & JA Kim. 2016. The importance of ambient temperature to growth and the induction of flowering. Front. Plant Sci. 7: 1266 doi 10.3389/fpls.2016.01266. [Download Full Text]

McClung, C.R. 2015. Who knows where the time goes. Nature Plants 1: 15163 doi 10.1038/NPLANTS.2015.172. [Download Full Text]

Greenham, K. & C.R. McClung. 2015. Integrating circadian dynamics with physiological processes in plants. Nature Reviews Genetics 17: doi 10.1038/nrg3976. [Download Full Text]

Gehan, M.A, K. Greenham,  T.C. Mockler & C.R. McClung. 2015. Transcriptional networks – crops, clocks, and abiotic stress. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 24: 39-46.  [Download Full Text]

McClung, C.R. 2014. Making Hunger Yield. Science 344: 699-700 [Download Full Text]

Greenham, K. & C.R. McClung. 2014. Temperature and the circadian clock. pp. 131-161, In: “Temperature and Plant Development,” K.A. Franklin & P. Wigge, eds. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. [Download Full Text]

McClung, C.R. 2014. Wheels within wheels: new transcriptional feedback loops in the Arabidopsis circadian clock. F1000Prime Rep. 6: 2. [Download Full Text]

McClung, C.R. & Q. Xie. 2014. Measurement of luciferase rhythms. pp. 1-11, In: Plant Circadian Networks: Methods and Protocols, Methods Mol. Biol. 1158,” D. Staiger, ed. Springer, New York. [Full Text]

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2010-2014

Xie, Q., P. Wang, X. Liu, L. Yuan, L. Wang, Y. Li, H. Xing, L. Zhi, Z. Yue, C. Zhao, C.R. McClung, & X. Xu. 2014. LNK1 and LNK2 are transcriptional coactivators in the Arabidopsis circadian oscillator.  Plant Cell 26:2843-2857 [Full Text]

Ng, D.W.-K., M. Miller, H.H. Yu, T.-Y. Huang, E.-D. Kim, J. Lu, Q. Xie, C.R. McClung, & Z.J. Chen. 2014. A role for CHH methylation in the parent-of-origin effect on altered circadian rhythms and biomass heterosis in Arabidopsis intraspecific hybrids.  Plant Cell 26: 2430-2440 [Full Text]

Rosas, U., Mei, Y., Xie, Q., Banta, J., Zhou, R.W., Seufferheld, G., Gerard-Martinez, S., Chou, L., Bhambhra, N., Flowers, J., McClung, C.R., Hanzawa, Y., Purugganan, M.D. 2014. Life history diversity in Arabidopsis controlled by cis-regulatory variation in CONSTANSNature Communications: 5:3561. [Full Text]

Zhang, C., Q. Xie, R.G. Anderson, G. Ng, N.C. Seitz, T. Peterson, C.R. McClung, J.M. McDowell, D. Kong, J.M. Kwak & H. Lu. 2013. Crosstalk between the circadian clock and innate immunity in Arabidopsis. PLoS Pathogens. 9:e1003370. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Hong, S, S.A. Kim, M.L. Guerinot & C.R. McClung. 2013.Reciprocal interaction of the circadian clock with the Fe homeostasis network in Arabidopsis thalianaPlant Physiol. 161:893-903. [Abstract] [Full Text] [On The Inside]

Wang, X., F. Wu, Q. Xie, H. Wang, Y. Wang, Y. Yue, O. Gahura, S. Ma, L. Liu, Y. Cao, Y. Jiao, F. Puta, C.R. McClung, X. Xu, & L. Ma, 2012. SKIP is a component of the spliceosome linking alternative splicing and the circadian clock in ArabidopsisPlant Cell24:3278-3295. [Abstract] [Download Full Text]

Lou, P., J. Wu, F. Cheng, L.G. Cressman, X. Wang & C.R. McClung, 2012. Preferential retention of circadian clock genes during diploidization following whole genome triplication in Brassica rapaPlant Cell 24: 2415-2426. [Abstract] [Download Full Text] [In Brief]

Edwards, C.E., B.E. Ewers, C.R. McClung, P. Lou & C. Weinig, 2012. Quantitative variation in water-use efficiency across water regimes and its relationship with circadian, vegetative, reproductive, and leaf gas-exchange traits. Mol. Plant 5: 653-668. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Edwards, C.E., B.E. Ewers, D.G. Williams, Q. Xie, P. Lou, X. Xu, C.R. McClung & C. Weinig, 2011. The genetic architecture of ecophysiological and circadian traits in Brassica rapaGenetics 189: 375-390. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supporting Online Material]

Jannat, R., M. Uraji, M. Morofuji, M.M. Islam, R.E. Bloom, Y. Nakamura & C.R. McClung, 2011. Roles of intracellular hydrogen peroxide accumulation in abscisic acid signaling in Arabidopsis guard cells. J. Plant Physiol. 168: 1919-1926. [Abstract] [Full Text][Supporting Online Material]

Lou, P., Q. Xie, X. Xu, C.E. Edwards, M.T. Brock, C. Weinig & C.R. McClung, 2011. Genetic architecture of the Brassica rapa circadian clock and flowering time. Theor. Appl. Genet.123: 397-409. [Download Full Text]

Salomé, P.A., D. Weigel & C.R. McClung. 2010. The role of the Arabidopsis morning loop componenets CCA1, LHY, PRR7, and PRR9 in temperature compensation. Plant Cell 22: 3650-3661. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supporting Online Material]

Hong, S, H.-R. Song, K. Lutz, R.A. Kerstetter, T.P. Michael & C.R. McClung. 2010.Type II protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) is required for circadian period determination in Arabidopsis thalianaProc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 107: 21211-21216.[Abstract] [Full Text] [Supporting Online Material]

Xu, X., Q. Xie & C.R. McClung.  2010. Robust circadian rhythms of gene expression in Brassica rapa tissue culture. Plant Physiol. 153: 841-850 [Full Text]

2005-2009

Jamai, A., P.A. Salomé, S.H. Schilling, A.P.M. Weber & C.R. McClung.  2009. Arabidopsis photorespiratory serine hydroxymethyltransferase activity requires the mitochondrial accumulation of ferredoxin-dependent glutamate synthase. Plant Cell 21: 595-606. [Abstract][Full Text] [Supplemental Data]

Fujiwara, S., L. Wang, L. Han, S.S. Suh, P.A. Salomé, C.R. McClung & D.E. Somers.  2008. Post-translational regulation of the circadian clock through selective proteolysis and phosphorylation of pseudo-response regulator proteins. J. Biol. Chem. 283: 23073-23083.[Abstract] [Full Text] [Supplemental Data]

Salomé, P.A., Q. Xie & C.R. McClung.  2008. Circadian timekeeping during early Arabidopsis development. Plant Physiol. 147: 1110-1125[Abstract] [Full Text] [Supporting Online Material]

Gutiérrez, R.A., T.L. Stokes, K. Thum, X. Xu, M. Obertello, M.S. Katari, M. Tanurdzic, A. Dean, D.C. Nero, C.R. McClung & G.M. Coruzzi. 2008. Systems approach identifies an organic nitrogen-responsive gene network that is regulated by the master clock control gene CCA1Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 105: 4939-4944. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supporting Online Material]

Salomé, P.A., J.P.C. To, J.J. Kieber & C.R. McClung. 2006. Arabidopsis response regulators ARR3 and ARR4 play cytokinin-independent roles in the control of circadian period. Plant Cell 18: 55-69. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supporting Online Material]

Voll, L.M., A. Jamai, P. Renné, H. Voll, C.R. McClung & A.P.M. Weber. 2006. The photorespiratory Arabidopsis shm1 mutant is deficient in SHM1Plant Physiol. 140: 59-66. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supporting Online Material] [In This Issue]

Lidder, P., R.A. Gutiérrez, P.A. Salomé, C.R. McClung & P.J. Green. 2005. Circadian control of mRNA stability: association with DST-mediated mRNA decay. Plant Physiol. 138: 2374-2385. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supporting Online Material]

Salomé, P.A. & C.R. McClung. 2005. PSEUDO-RESPONSE REGULATOR 7 and 9 are partially redundant genes essential for the temperature responsiveness of the Arabidopsis circadian clock. Plant Cell 17:791-803. [Abstract] [Full Text] [In This Issue]

2000-2004

Tseng, T.-S., P.A. Salomé, C.R. McClung & N.E. Olszewski. 2004. SPINDLY and GIGANTEA interact and act in Arabidopsis thaliana pathways involved in light responses, flowering and rhythms in leaf movements. Plant Cell 16:1550-1563. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Michael, T.P., P.A. Salomé, H.J. Yu, T.R. Spencer, E.L. Sharp, J.M. Alonso, J.R. Ecker & C.R. McClung. 2003. Enhanced fitness conferred by naturally occurring variation in the circadian clock. Science 302: 1049-1053. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supporting Online Material]

Michael, T.P., P.A. Salomé & C.R. McClung. 2003. Two Arabidopsis circadian oscillators can be distinguished by differential temperature sensitivity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 100: 6878-6883. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supporting Figure]

Michael, T.P. & C.R. McClung. 2003. Enhancer trapping reveals widespread circadian clock transcriptional control in Arabidopsis thalianaPlant Physiol. 132: 629-639. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supplementary Data] [On The Inside]

Langmead, C.J., A.K. Yan, C.R. McClung & B. R. Donald. 2003. Phase-Independent Rhythmic Analysis of Genome-Wide Expression Patterns. J. Comput. Biol. 10:521-536. [Download PDF] [Download Software]

Salomé, P.A., T.P. Michael, E.V. Kearns, A.G. Fett-Neto, R.A. Sharrock, & C.R. McClung. 2002. The out of phase 1 (oop1) mutant defines a role for PHYB in circadian phase control in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 129: 1674-1685. [Abstract] [Full Text] [On The Inside]

Michael, T.P. & C.R. McClung. 2002. Phase-specific circadian clock regulatory elements in Arabidopsis thalianaPlant Physiol. 130:627-638. [Abstract] [Full Text]

 

McClung, C.R., Hsu, M., Painter, J.E., Gagne, J.M. Karlsberg, S.D. & P.A. Salomé. 2000. Integrated temporal regulation of the photorespiratory pathway: circadian regulation of two Arabidopsis genes encoding serine hydroxymethyltransferase. Plant Physiol. 123: 381-391. [Abstract] [Full Text]

1989-1999

Frugoli, J.A., M.A. McPeek, T.L. Thomas & C.R. McClung. 1998. Intron loss and gain during evolution of the catalase gene family in Angiosperms. Genetics 148: 355-365. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Zhong, H.H., J.E. Painter, P.A. Salome, M. Straume & C.R. McClung. 1998. Imbibition, but not release from stratification, sets the circadian clock in Arabidopsis seedlings. Plant Cell 10: 2005-2017. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Zhong, H.H., A.S. Resnick, M. Straume & C.R. McClung. 1997. Effects of synergistic signaling by Phytochrome A and Cryptochrome 1 on circadian clock-regulated catalase expression. Plant Cell 9:947-955. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Frugoli, J.A., H.H. Zhong, M.L. Nuccio, P. McCourt, M.A. McPeek, T.L. Thomas & C.R. McClung. 1996. Catalase is encoded by a multi-gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. Plant Physiol. 112:327-336. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Liu, Z., C.C. Taub & C.R. McClung. 1996. Identification of an Arabidopsis Rubisco Activase (RCA) minimal promoter regulated by light and the circadian clock. Plant Physiol. 112:43-51[Abstract] [Full Text]

Zhong, H.H., & C.R. McClung. 1996. The circadian clock gates expression of two Arabidopsis catalase genes to distinct and opposite circadian phases. Mol. Gen. Genet. 251:196-203. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Zhong, H.H., J.C. Young, E.A. Pease, R.P. Hangarter & C.R. McClung. 1994. Interactions between light and the circadian clock in the regulation of CAT2 expression in ArabidopsisPlant Physiol. 104:889-898. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Pilgrim, M.L., & C.R. McClung. 1993. Differential involvement of the circadian clock in the expression of genes required for ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase synthesis, assembly, and activation in Arabidopsis thalianaPlant Physiol. 103:553-564.[Abstract] [Full Text]

Pilgrim, M.L., T. Caspar, P.H. Quail & C.R. McClung. 1993. Circadian and light regulated expression of nitrate reductase in ArabidopsisPlant Mol. Biol. 23:349-364. [Abstract]

McClung, C.R., B.A. Fox & J.C. Dunlap. 1989. The Neurospora clock gene frequency shares a sequence element with the Drosophila clock gene periodNature 339:558-562. Click here to view a Nice Image.

 

Review Articles

2010-2013

McClung, C.R. 2013. Beyond Arabidopsis: The circadian clock in non-model plant species. Sem. Cell Dev. Biol. 24: 430-436. [Download Full Text]

McClung, C.R. 2011. The genetics of plant clocks. Adv. Genet. 74: 105-139. [Download Full Text]

McClung, C.R. & S.J. Davis. 2010. Ambient thermometers in plants: From physiological outputs towards mechanisms of thermal sensing. Curr. Biol. 20: R1086-R1092. [Download Full Text]

McClung, C.R. & R.A. Gutierrez. 2010. Network news: prime time for systems biology of the plant circadian clock. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 20: 588-598. [Download Full Text]

McClung, C.R. 2010. A modern circadian clock in the common angiosperm ancestor of monocots and eudicots. BMC Biology 8: 55. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Kim, W.-Y., P.A. Salomé, S. Fujiwara, D.E. Somers & C.R. McClung. 2010. Characterization of Pseudo-Response Regulators in plants. Meth. Enzymol. 471: 359-380. [Full Text]

2005-2009

McClung, C.R. 2009. Linking the loops. Science 323: 1440-1441. [Summary] [Full Text]

McClung, C.R. 2008. Comes a time. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 11: 514-520. [Download Full Text]

 

McClung, C.R. 2006. Plant circadian rhythms. Plant Cell 18: 792-803. [Full Text]

Salomé, P.A. & C.R. McClung. 2005. What makes Arabidopsis tick: light and temperature entrainment of the circadian clock. Plant Cell Environ. 28:21-38. [Download PDF]

2000-2004

Salomé, P.A. & C.R. McClung. 2004. The Arabidopsis thaliana clock. J. Biol. Rhythms 19:425-435. [Download PDF]

McClung, C.R., Salomé, P.A., & T.P. Michael. 2002. The Arabidopsis Circadian System. In: The Arabidopsis Book, eds. C.R. Somerville and E.M. Meyerowitz, American Society of Plant Biologists, Rockville, MD, DOI/10.1199/tab.0044 [Full Text]

McClung, C.R. 2001. Circadian rhythms in plants. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 52:139-162. [Download PDF]

McClung, C.R. 2000. Plant circadian clocks: a millennial view. Physiol. Plant. 109: 359-371. [Download PDF]

1990-1999

McClung, C.R. 1998. It’s about time: putative components of an Arabidopsis circadian clock. Trends Plant Sci. 3: 454-456. [Download PDF]

McClung, C.R. 1997. The regulation of catalase in Arabidopsis. Free Radical Biology & Medicine 23:489-496. [Download PDF]

McClung, C.R., & S.A. Kay. 1994. Circadian rhythms in the higher plant, Arabidopsis thaliana. In: C.R. Somerville & E. Meyerowitz, eds, Arabidopsis thaliana, pp. 615-637. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.

McClung, C. R. 1993. The higher plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, as a model system for the molecular analysis of circadian rhythms. In: M. Young, ed., The molecular genetics of biological rhythms, pp. 1-35. Marcel Dekker, New York.