Erwin Bünning and Wolfgang Engelmann: establishing the involvement of the circadian clock in photoperiodism.
Kalanchoë blossfeldiana
Phaseolus multiflorus
Circadian clock
Erwin Bünning
Photoperiodism
Wolfgang Engelmann
Journal
Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology
ISSN: 1432-1351
Titre abrégé: J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 101141792
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
28 May 2024
28 May 2024
Historique:
received:
20
03
2024
accepted:
30
04
2024
revised:
26
04
2024
medline:
28
5
2024
pubmed:
28
5
2024
entrez:
28
5
2024
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
In 1936, Erwin Bünning published his groundbreaking work that the endogenous clock is used to measure day length for initiating photoperiodic responses. His publication triggered years of controversial debate until it ultimately became the basic axiom of rhythm research and the theoretical pillar of chronobiology. Bünning's thesis is frequently quoted in the articles in this special issue on the subject of "A clock for all seasons". However, nowadays only few people know in detail about Bünning's experiments and almost nobody knows about the contribution of his former doctoral student, Wolfgang Engelmann, to his theory because most work on this topic is published in German. The aim of this review is to give an overview of the most important experiments at that time, including Wolfgang Engelmann's doctoral thesis, in which he demonstrated the importance of the circadian clock for photoperiodic flower induction in the Flaming Katy, Kalanchoë blossfeldiana, but not in the Red Morning Glory, Ipomoea coccinea.
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doi: 10.1007/s00359-024-01704-7
pii: 10.1007/s00359-024-01704-7
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eng
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