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TWO STEP. "Moreover, the adjustment of enzyme levels includes a two-step reaction—a change in day length results first in a “half-way” transcriptional response that is followed by adequate translational output only upon repeated or lasting environmental stimulation." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.4.5.8276#abstract View in LinkedIn

PAST MEMORIES. "The pattern of assimilation-storage-consumption can be tuned to changes in environmental conditions such as day length or light level in a manner that indicates some kind of memory of previous experience." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.4.5.8276#abstract View in LinkedIn

ANTICIPATED NEED. "Most interestingly, starch mobilization at the night is essentially linear, resulting in nearly complete consumption of the starch reserve during every night. Thus, the plant is apparently able to measure the amount of starch at the end of the day and “anticipate” the length of night." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.4.5.8276#abstract View in LinkedIn

ENERGY BALANCE. "Sugar sensing and signaling is an important part of mechanisms orchestrating carbon assimilation, assimilate storage and consumption based on precise sensing and integration of signals on energy balance at different levels. Arabidopsis plants not only tune sugar utilization and growth according to assimilate supply, but they also modulate the deposition of storage carbon (starch) according to “expected” need during the night." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.4.5.8276#abstract View in LinkedIn

COMPETING NEEDS. "One of the most serious tasks of plant life is achieving balance, over a wide range of environmental conditions, between carbon assimilation in source photosynthetic tissues, and consumption of assimilates in sink tissues and organs resulting in growth and carbon storage. The diurnal rhythm of photosynthesis, moreover, results in a need to put aside a part of assimilates during the day to cover the demands of both assimilatory and sink tissues during the night." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.4.5.8276#abstract View in LinkedIn