Figure 5. Expected effects of the changing coincidence of protein synthesis with transcript.

1. Schematic of translational coincidence. The combination of circadian regulation of transcript and light stimulation of translation leads to photoperiod responses at the protein level.
2. Idealised representation of translational coincidence for two different transcripts. Light maintains high rates of protein synthesis for longer in longer photoperiods (top panels), which is expected to be without consequence for protein synthesis from dawn‐phased transcripts (centre panels), but results in a boost of protein synthesis from transcripts expressed late in the day (bottom panels). The total number of transcript:protein pairs is given in the title of each graph.