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 …

Metabolomics in the context of plant natural products research: From sample preparation to metabolite analysis

MA Salem, L Perez de Souza, A Serag, AR Fernie… - Metabolites, 2020 - mdpi.com
Plant-derived natural products have long been considered a valuable source of lead
compounds for drug development. Natural extracts are usually composed of hundreds to …

Revisiting the basal role of ABA–roles outside of stress

T Yoshida, A Christmann, K Yamaguchi-Shinozaki… - Trends in Plant …, 2019 - cell.com
The physiological roles of abscisic acid (ABA) as a stress hormone in plant responses to
water shortage, including stomatal regulation and gene expression, have been well …

Activation of anthocyanin biosynthesis in high light–what is the initial signal?

GE Araguirang, AS Richter - New Phytologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Due to their sessile nature, plants cannot escape adverse environmental conditions and
evolved mechanisms to cope with sudden environmental changes. The reaction to …

Autophagy: an intracellular degradation pathway regulating plant survival and stress response

T Su, X Li, M Yang, Q Shao, Y Zhao, C Ma… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Autophagy is an intracellular process that facilitates the bulk degradation of cytoplasmic
materials by the vacuole or lysosome in eukaryotes. This conserved process is achieved …

Trehalose-6-phosphate signaling regulates lateral root formation in Arabidopsis thaliana

S Morales-Herrera, J Jourquin… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Plant roots explore the soil for water and nutrients, thereby determining plant fitness and
agricultural yield, as well as determining ground substructure, water levels, and global …

SnRK1 and TOR: modulating growth–defense trade-offs in plant stress responses

L Margalha, A Confraria… - Journal of experimental …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The evolutionarily conserved protein kinase complexes SnRK1 and TOR are central
metabolic regulators essential for plant growth, development, and stress responses. They …

Integration of nutrient, energy, light, and hormone signalling via TOR in plants

Y Wu, L Shi, L Li, L Fu, Y Liu, Y Xiong… - Journal of experimental …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The multidomain target of rapamycin (TOR) is an atypical serine/threonine protein kinase
resembling phosphatidylinositol lipid kinases, but retains high sequence identity and serves …

Autophagy in plants: Physiological roles and post‐translational regulation

H Qi, FN Xia, S Xiao - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In eukaryotes, autophagy helps maintain cellular homeostasis by degrading and recycling
cytoplasmic materials via a tightly regulated pathway. Over the past few decades, significant …

Homeostasis of branched-chain amino acids is critical for the activity of TOR signaling in Arabidopsis

P Cao, SJ Kim, A Xing, CA Schenck, L Liu, N Jiang… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
The target of rapamycin (TOR) kinase is an evolutionarily conserved hub of nutrient sensing
and metabolic signaling. In plants, a functional connection of TOR activation with glucose …