Dynamic Nutrient Signaling Networks in Plants

Nutrients are vital to life through intertwined sensing, signaling, and metabolic processes. Emerging research focuses on how distinct nutrient signaling networks integrate and coordinate gene expression, metabolism, growth, and survival. We review the multifaceted roles of sugars, nitrate, and phos...

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Published in:Annual review of cell and developmental biology 2021-10, Vol.37 (1), p.341-367
Main Authors: Li, Lei, Liu, Kun-hsiang, Sheen, Jen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
glucose signaling
HEXOKINASE1
HXK1
nitrate signaling
phosphate signaling
SNF1-RELATED PROTEIN KINASE1
SNRK1
TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN
TOR
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Summary:Nutrients are vital to life through intertwined sensing, signaling, and metabolic processes. Emerging research focuses on how distinct nutrient signaling networks integrate and coordinate gene expression, metabolism, growth, and survival. We review the multifaceted roles of sugars, nitrate, and phosphate as essential plant nutrients in controlling complex molecular and cellular mechanisms of dynamic signaling networks. Key advances in central sugar and energy signaling mechanisms mediated by the evolutionarily conserved master regulators HEXOKINASE1 (HXK1), TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN (TOR), and SNF1-RELATED PROTEIN KINASE1 (SNRK1) are discussed. Significant progress in primary nitrate sensing, calcium signaling, transcriptome analysis, and root-shoot communication to shape plant biomass and architecture are elaborated. Discoveries on intracellular and extracellular phosphate signaling and the intimate connections with nitrate and sugar signaling are examined. This review highlights the dynamic nutrient, energy, growth, and stress signaling networks that orchestrate systemwide transcriptional, translational, and metabolic reprogramming, modulate growth and developmental programs, and respond to environmental cues.
ISSN:1081-0706
1530-8995
DOI:10.1146/annurev-cellbio-010521-015047