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Despite the fact that all plants follow strict developmental programmes, they also have intrinsic mechanisms to monitor the environment and activate appropriate responses at the (sub-)cellular level, facilitating adaptation to abiotic and biotic fluctuations. The functionality of plant adaptive systems always relies on the sum of signalling machineries that control their transition from the resting state. Phosphoglycerolipids play a role in such signalling mechanisms. These structural components of cell membranes can be converted into multiple bioactive lipids, but also into soluble molecules. Together they shape cell metabolism via binding to downstream protein targets, thus affecting enzymatic activities, vesicle trafficking and ion fluxes. The conversion of lipids is catalysed by the hydrolytic activity of phospholipases and by the action of lipid-kinases and lipid-phosphatases. These activities are strictly regulated in plant …