Plant Growth-Defense Trade-Offs: Molecular Processes Leading to Physiological Changes

In order to survive in a hostile habitat, plants have to manage the available resources to reach a delicate balance between development and defense processes, setting up what plant scientists call a trade-off. Most of these processes are basically responses to stimuli sensed by plant cell receptors...

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Published in:International journal of molecular sciences 2021-01, Vol.22 (2), p.693
Main Authors: Figueroa-Macías, Juan Pablo, García, Yamilet Coll, Núñez, María, Díaz, Katy, Olea, Andres F, Espinoza, Luis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abiotic stress
Agricultural management
Animals
Antioxidants
Cell division
cell receptors
Crop production
Crops, Agricultural - physiology
Defense mechanisms
Ecosystem
Enzymes
Genes
growth-defense trade-offs
Herbivores
Hormones
Humans
Kinases
Physiology
phytohormones
Plant Development - physiology
Plant growth
Plant resistance
Proteins
Regulation
Review
Signal transduction
Sustainable agriculture
Tradeoffs
Transcription factors
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Summary:In order to survive in a hostile habitat, plants have to manage the available resources to reach a delicate balance between development and defense processes, setting up what plant scientists call a trade-off. Most of these processes are basically responses to stimuli sensed by plant cell receptors and are influenced by the environmental features, which can incredibly modify such responses and even cause changes upon both molecular and phenotypic level. Therefore, significant differences can be detected between plants of the same species living in different environments. The comprehension of plant growth-defense trade-offs from the molecular basis to the phenotypic expression is one of the fundamentals for developing sustainable agriculture, so with this review we intend to contribute to the increasing of knowledge on this topic, which have a great importance for future development of agricultural crop production.
ISSN:1422-0067
1661-6596
1422-0067
DOI:10.3390/ijms22020693