Cytokinins–recent news and views of evolutionally old molecules

L Spíchal - Functional Plant Biology, 2012 - CSIRO Publishing
Cytokinins (CKs) are evolutionally old and highly conserved low-mass molecules that have
been identified in almost all known organisms. In plants, they evolved into an important …

Plant antiviral immunity against geminiviruses and viral counter-defense for survival

RV Kumar - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The family Geminiviridae includes plant-infecting viruses whose genomes are composed of
one or two circular non-enveloped ssDNAs (+) of about 2.5–5.2 kb each in size. These …

A cell wall–localized cytokinin/purine riboside nucleosidase is involved in apoplastic cytokinin metabolism in Oryza sativa

M Kojima, N Makita, K Miyata… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
In the final step of cytokinin biosynthesis, the main pathway is the elimination of a ribose-
phosphate moiety from the cytokinin nucleotide precursor by phosphoribohydrolase, an …

Nucleotide metabolism in plants

CP Witte, M Herde - Plant physiology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
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Cytokinin Activity of cis-Zeatin and Phenotypic Alterations Induced by Overexpression of Putative cis-Zeatin-O-glucosyltransferase in Rice

T Kudo, N Makita, M Kojima, H Tokunaga… - Plant …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract cis-Zeatin (cZ) is generally regarded as a cytokinin with little or no activity,
compared with the highly active trans-zeatin (tZ). Although recent studies suggested …

The hulks and the deadpools of the cytokinin universe: a dual strategy for cytokinin production, translocation, and signal transduction

T Hluska, L Hlusková, RJN Emery - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cytokinins are plant hormones, derivatives of adenine with a side chain at the N6-position.
They are involved in many physiological processes. While the metabolism of trans-zeatin …

Five unaddressed questions about cytokinin biosynthesis

H Sakakibara - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Cytokinins, a class of phytohormones, play crucial roles in regulating plant growth and stress
responses through finely tuned feedback loops involving metabolic and signaling cascades …

Purine salvage in plants

H Ashihara, C Stasolla, T Fujimura, A Crozier - Phytochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
Purine bases and nucleosides are produced by turnover of nucleotides and nucleic acids as
well as from some cellular metabolic pathways. Adenosine released from the S-adenosyl-L …

Xanthine alkaloids: occurrence, biosynthesis, and function in plants

H Ashihara, K Mizuno, T Yokota, A Crozier - Progress in the chemistry of …, 2017 - Springer
Caffeine is a xanthine alkaloid found in non-alcoholic beverages such as tea, coffee, and
cocoa. It was discovered in tea and coffee in the 1820s, but it was not until 2000 that details …

The stripe rust fungal effector PEC 6 suppresses pattern‐triggered immunity in a host species‐independent manner and interacts with adenosine kinases

C Liu, C Pedersen, T Schultz‐Larsen… - New …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We identified a wheat stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis) effector candidate (PEC 6) with pattern‐
triggered immunity (PTI) suppression function and its corresponding host target. PEC 6 …