Thriving under stress: how plants balance growth and the stress response

H Zhang, Y Zhao, JK Zhu - Developmental Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Defense against stress and active suppression of growth are two complementary strategies
by which plants respond to adverse environments. Although beneficial for plant survival …

Proline metabolism as regulatory hub

ME Alvarez, A Savouré, L Szabados - Trends in Plant Science, 2022 - cell.com
Proline is a multifunctional amino acid that is accumulated in high concentrations in plants
under various stress conditions. Proline accumulation is intimately connected to many …

AMPK and TOR: the yin and yang of cellular nutrient sensing and growth control

A González, MN Hall, SC Lin, DG Hardie - Cell metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
The AMPK (AMP-activated protein kinase) and TOR (target-of-rapamycin) pathways are
interlinked, opposing signaling pathways involved in sensing availability of nutrients and …

Mapping of the plant SnRK1 kinase signalling network reveals a key regulatory role for the class II T6P synthase-like proteins

J Van Leene, D Eeckhout, A Gadeyne, C Matthijs… - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
The central metabolic regulator SnRK1 controls plant growth and survival upon activation by
energy depletion, but detailed molecular insight into its regulation and downstream targets is …

The Arabidopsis bZIP transcription factor family—an update

W Dröge-Laser, BL Snoek, B Snel, C Weiste - Current opinion in plant …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•bZIPs are evolutionarily conserved eukaryotic transcription factors.•The
Arabidopsis bZIP family consists of 78 members classified into 13 groups.•bZIPs perform a …

Submergence and waterlogging stress in plants: a review highlighting research opportunities and understudied aspects

T Fukao, BE Barrera-Figueroa, P Juntawong… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Soil flooding creates composite and complex stress in plants known as either submergence
or waterlogging stress depending on the depth of the water table. In nature, these stresses …

A dual function of SnRK2 kinases in the regulation of SnRK1 and plant growth

B Belda-Palazon, M Adamo, C Valerio, LJ Ferreira… - Nature Plants, 2020 - nature.com
Adverse environmental conditions trigger responses in plants that promote stress tolerance
and survival at the expense of growth. However, little is known of how stress signalling …

Discovery of nitrate–CPK–NLP signalling in central nutrient–growth networks

K Liu, Y Niu, M Konishi, Y Wu, H Du, H Sun Chung, L Li… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Nutrient signalling integrates and coordinates gene expression, metabolism and growth.
However, its primary molecular mechanisms remain incompletely understood in plants and …

Plant developmental responses to climate change

SB Gray, SM Brady - Developmental biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Climate change is multi-faceted, and includes changing concentrations of greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere, rising temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, and …

Sugar signaling during fruit ripening

S Durán-Soria, DM Pott, S Osorio… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Sugars play a key role in fruit quality, as they directly influence taste, and thus consumer
acceptance. Carbohydrates are the main resources needed by the plant for carbon and …