Tuber and tuberous root development

W Zierer, D Rüscher, U Sonnewald… - Annual review of plant …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Root and tuber crops have been an important part of human nutrition since the early days of
humanity, providing us with essential carbohydrates, proteins, and vitamins. Today, they are …

Plant SWEETs: from sugar transport to plant–pathogen interaction and more unexpected physiological roles

R Breia, A Conde, H Badim, AM Fortes… - Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Sugars Will Eventually be Exported Transporters (SWEETs) have important roles in
numerous physiological mechanisms where sugar efflux is critical, including phloem …

Regulation of shoot branching in Arabidopsis by trehalose 6‐phosphate

F Fichtner, FF Barbier, MG Annunziata, R Feil… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Trehalose 6‐phosphate (Tre6P) is a sucrose signalling metabolite that has been
implicated in regulation of shoot branching, but its precise role is not understood. We …

Photoperiod controls plant seed size in a CONSTANS-dependent manner

B Yu, X He, Y Tang, Z Chen, L Zhou, X Li, C Zhang… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
Photoperiodic plants perceive changes in day length as seasonal cues to orchestrate their
vegetative and reproductive growth. Although it is known that the floral transition of …

Emerging roles of SWEET sugar transporters in plant development and abiotic stress responses

T Gautam, M Dutta, V Jaiswal, G Zinta, V Gahlaut… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sugars are the major source of energy in living organisms and play important roles in
osmotic regulation, cell signaling and energy storage. SWEETs (Sugars Will Eventually be …

CRISPR‐Cas9‐mediated mutagenesis of kiwifruit BFT genes results in an evergrowing but not early flowering phenotype

D Herath, C Voogd, M Mayo‐Smith… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Phosphatidylethanolamine‐binding protein (PEBP) genes regulate flowering and
architecture in many plant species. Here, we study kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis, Ac) PEBP …

Sugar transporters and their molecular tradeoffs during abiotic stress responses in plants

P Salvi, R Agarrwal, Kajal, N Gandass… - Physiologia …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sugars as photosynthates are well known as energy providers and as building blocks of
various structural components of plant cells, tissues and organs. Additionally, as a part of …

Beyond the Genetic Pathways, Flowering Regulation Complexity in Arabidopsis thaliana

S Quiroz, JC Yustis, EC Chávez-Hernández… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Flowering is one of the most critical developmental transitions in plants' life. The irreversible
change from the vegetative to the reproductive stage is strictly controlled to ensure the …

Sugar and nitrate sensing: a multi-billion-year story

F Fichtner, IM Dissanayake, B Lacombe… - Trends in Plant Science, 2021 - cell.com
Sugars and nitrate play a major role in providing carbon and nitrogen in plants.
Understanding how plants sense these nutrients is crucial, most notably for crop …

Molecular regulation of plant developmental transitions and plant architecture via PEPB family proteins: an update on mechanism of action

Y Zhu, S Klasfeld, D Wagner - Journal of experimental botany, 2021 - academic.oup.com
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the experiments by Garner and Allard that showed
that plants measure the duration of the night and day (the photoperiod) to time flowering …