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Plant Sciences
Mengxue Wang, Shuwei Luo, Baofang Fan, Cheng Zhu, Zhixiang Chen
Summary: LYST-INTERACTING PROTEIN5 (LIP5) is a conserved regulator of multivesicular body (MVB) biogenesis in eukaryotes. In Arabidopsis, AtLIP5 mediates stress-induced MVB biogenesis, but its knockout mutants are normal in growth and development. However, in rice, OsLIP5 plays a crucial role in disease resistance, salt tolerance, and normal plant growth, as its knockout mutants exhibit severe growth defects and necrotic lesions.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Zhanmei Zhou, Jiangbo Fan, Jia Zhang, Yanmei Yang, Yifan Zhang, Xiaofei Zan, Xiaohong Li, Jiale Wan, Xiaoling Gao, Rongjun Cheng, Zhengjian Huang, Lihua Li, Zhengjun Xu
Summary: This study identified a drought-inducing gene, OsMLP423, which is strongly induced by drought and salt stresses in rice. The overexpression of OsMLP423 enhances the tolerance of rice to abiotic stresses through an ABA-dependent pathway.
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Plant Sciences
Toi Ketehouli, Yong-Gang Zhou, Si-Yu Dai, Kue Foka Idrice Carther, Da-Qian Sun, Yang Li, Quoc Viet Hoang Nguyen, Hu Xu, Fa-Wei Wang, Wei-Can Liu, Xiao-Wei Li, Hai-Yan Li
Summary: CIPKs are key elements in plant abiotic stress signaling pathways, with GmPKS4 playing a role in improving soybean tolerance to various stresses. Overexpression of GmPKS4 increases proline content, antioxidant enzyme activities, and reduces malondialdehyde levels under salt and salt-alkali stress, activating reactive oxygen species scavenging systems and enhancing stress-related gene expression levels.
JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Cell Biology
Kirti Shekhawat, Katja Frohlich, Gabriel X. Garcia-Ramirez, Marilia A. Trapp, Heribert Hirt
Summary: The plant hormone ethylene plays a crucial role in regulating physiological processes and plant-microbe interactions. Recent studies have shown that ethylene is also important for beneficial plant-microbial associations under abiotic stress such as salt and heat stress. Understanding ethylene-dependent plant-microbe interactions is essential for developing strategies to enhance plant tolerance to harsh environmental conditions.
Article
Agronomy
Ting Jin, Zhong Shan, Shuang Zhou, Qianqian Yang, Junyi Gai, Yan Li
Summary: The soybean DNAJ gene GmDNAJC7 plays a key role in plant response to alkaline-salt, salt, and drought stresses, as overexpression enhances tolerance in Arabidopsis and soybean.
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Francisco J. Hernandez-Walias, Marina Garcia, Marina Moreno, Ioannis Giannoukos, Natalia Gonzalez, Eugenio Sanz-Garcia, Khouloud Necira, Tomas Canto, Francisco Tenllado
Summary: Plants develop mechanisms to enhance their immune systems after pathogen infection, resulting in increased resistance to environmental stresses. This resistance can be inherited by the progeny, making them more tolerant to stress. In virus-infected plants, tolerance to abiotic stress can be induced within the same generation and partially sustained in the progeny. The study shows that this transgenerational tolerance to abiotic stress in progeny is correlated with the level of virulence of the pathogen and involves the upregulation of stress-related genes and the involvement of 24-nt small interfering RNAs.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
Review
Plant Sciences
Siarhei A. A. Dabravolski, Stanislav V. V. Isayenkov
Summary: Drought and salinity have negative effects on plant growth and productivity, but the anthocyanin biosynthesis system can activate plant stress-tolerance mechanisms and enhance drought and salt tolerance. This review focuses on the molecular and biochemical mechanisms of anthocyanins in acquired tolerance to drought and salt stresses, as well as the role of abscisic acid and abscisic-acid-miRNA156 in regulating drought-induced anthocyanin production. Additionally, it summarizes the research progress on transcription factors involved in anthocyanin biosynthesis and the development of salt and drought tolerance. Finally, the recent progress in using modern gene manipulation technologies to develop anthocyanin-enriched plants with enhanced tolerance to drought and salt stresses is discussed.
Article
Plant Sciences
Lei Shen, Xin Xia, Longhao Zhang, Shixin Yang, Xu Yang
Summary: Salt stress seriously affects plant growth and yield, and the mechanisms of plant response to salt stress are still unclear. This study found that SmWRKY11, a transcription factor, acts as a positive regulator in eggplant response to salt stress and indirectly regulates salt stress response through forming a positive feedback loop with SmERF1.
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
(2023)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Farwa Basit, Jiaxin Liu, Jianyu An, Min Chen, Can He, Xiaobo Zhu, Zhan Li, Jin Hu, Yajing Guan
Summary: The article discusses the role of brassinosteroids in enhancing plant stress tolerance, their interactions with other plant hormones, and their importance in regulating physiological and developmental processes.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Plant Sciences
Xiuxiu Zhang, Yu Sun, Xiao Qiu, Hai Lu, Inhwan Hwang, Tianzuo Wang
Summary: Legume plants are important food sources, but their production is limited by abiotic stresses. This review provides a comprehensive summary of the adaptive mechanism of the model legume plant Medicago truncatula in response to drought, salt, and cold stress, and discusses future research directions.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Liuqing Huo, Zijian Guo, Ping Wang, Xun Sun, Kai Xu, Fengwang Ma
Summary: MdHARBI1 is identified as an interacting protein of MdATG8i in apple, and is significantly induced by heat stress. It plays a critical role in the basal thermotolerance of plants by influencing autophagy pathways.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Hailun Liu, Yuge Li, Yilong Hu, Yuhua Yang, Wenbin Zhang, Ming He, Xiaoming Li, Chunyu Zhang, Fanjiang Kong, Xu Liu, Xingliang Hou
Summary: EIJ1 acts as a negative regulator of plant immunity by interacting with EDS1 and inhibiting pathogen-triggered trafficking of EDS1 to the nucleus. As disease progresses, EIJ1 is degraded, allowing EDS1 to accumulate in the nucleus for enhanced resistance. The avirulent strain Pst DC3000 (AvrRps4) induces rapid degradation of EIJ1 to abolish its repressive effect during effector-triggered immunity.
Article
Plant Sciences
Anna Fiorillo, Michela Manai, Sabina Visconti, Lorenzo Camoni
Summary: Salt stress is a major abiotic stress that limits plant survival and crop productivity. The Salt Tolerance-Related Protein (STRP) has been characterized as a protein involved in plant responses to cold stress and proposed as a mediator of salt stress response in Arabidopsis thaliana. This study investigated the role of STRP in salt stress responses and found that STRP plays a protective role by reducing oxidative stress and is involved in osmotic adjustment mechanisms in A. thaliana.
Article
Plant Sciences
Lei Shen, Enpeng Zhao, Ruie Liu, Xu Yang
Summary: Salt stress inhibits plant growth and decreases crop yield. This study identified enriched pathways and genes affected during salt treatment using mRNA sequencing. The AP2/ERF transcription factor SmERF1 was found to be significantly upregulated by salt stress and played a crucial role in the response to salt stress in eggplant. Silencing SmERF1 increased plant susceptibility to salt stress and reduced the expression of defense-related genes.
Review
Cell Biology
Rodrigo Enrique Gomez, Josselin Lupette, Clement Chambaud, Julie Castets, Amelie Ducloy, Jean-Luc Cacas, Celine Masclaux-Daubresse, Amelie Bernard
Summary: Plants rely on autophagy to respond to environmental and developmental stresses, mediating the degradation and recycling of cellular material. The formation of autophagosomes requires membrane remodeling events where the quantity and quality of lipids are crucial for sustaining autophagy activity.
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Kaixin Wang, Shuyu Cai, Qufan Xing, Zhenyu Qi, Vasileios Fotopoulos, Jingquan Yu, Jie Zhou
Summary: Melatonin promotes plant tolerance against carbon starvation by upregulating the expression of miR171b, which can directly inhibit GWD expression in tomato leaves.
JOURNAL OF PINEAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Dongyue Li, Jie Zhou, Chao Zheng, Ersong Zheng, Weifang Liang, Xiaojing Tan, Rumeng Xu, Chengqi Yan, Yong Yang, Keke Yi, Xiuli Liu, Jianping Chen, Xuming Wang
Summary: This study identified a new transcription factor, OsTGAL1, which negatively regulates rice susceptibility to Xoo by affecting SA metabolism through the activation of OsSGT1, a key enzyme in SA metabolism.
PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Dong-Ling Xie, Xue-Lian Zheng, Can-Yu Zhou, Mukesh Kumar Kanwar, Jie Zhou
Summary: Maintaining cellular redox homeostasis is crucial for normal plant growth and development, with different developmental stages having specific redox modes. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species play key roles in cell signal transduction and redox balance in plant cells. Pollen development relies on ROS-mediated programmed cell death, and pollen is highly sensitive to environmental stress, particularly oxidative burst.
Review
Plant Sciences
Kaixin Wang, Qufan Xing, Golam Jalal Ahammed, Jie Zhou
Summary: This review discusses the role of melatonin in plant growth and development and its potential in regulating crop yield and quality. Melatonin improves plant resistance to stresses and can modulate plant signaling and response pathways. It plays a crucial role in improving crop quality and yield. The review also analyzes the effective concentrations of exogenous melatonin and compares endogenous phytomelatonin concentrations in different crops and organs. Potential approaches to regulate crop yield and quality through the application and manipulation of melatonin are discussed.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Jin-Ping Zou, Qiu-Feng Zhao, Ting Yang, Yi-Fen Shang, Golam Jalal Ahammed, Jie Zhou
Summary: The tomato E3 ubiquitin ligase RING1 interacts with COP9 Signalosome Subunit 4 (CSN4) and positively regulates JA-dependent basal defense against root-knot nematodes (RKNs).
Article
Oncology
Jie Zhou, Lvying Wu, Pengyan Xu, Yue Li, Zhiliang Ji, Xinmei Kang
Summary: This study identified potential driver genes of breast cancer metastasis through whole-exome sequencing and demonstrated FLNA as a potential driver gene for metastasis. Knocking out FLNA inhibited the metastatic abilities of tumor cells. The findings provide new insights into breast cancer metastasis and suggest a potential therapeutic target for breast cancer therapy.
FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Md. Kamrul Hasan, Qu-Fan Xing, Can-Yu Zhou, Kai-Xin Wang, Tong Xu, Ping Yang, Zhen-Yu Qi, Shu-Jun Shao, Golam Jalal Ahammed, Jie Zhou
Summary: Research shows that high concentrations of carbon dioxide can lead to increased accumulation of melatonin in tomato leaves, and this response is conserved in many plant species. Manipulating the levels of melatonin affects the accumulation of sugar and starch in tomato leaves, as well as the expression of chloroplast and nuclear-encoded photosynthetic genes. Furthermore, melatonin plays a crucial role in enhancing plant tolerance to heat stress, regulating reactive oxygen species, redox homeostasis, cellular protein protection, and phytohormone metabolism.
JOURNAL OF PINEAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Review
Cell Biology
Yuanyuan Ding, Baofang Fan, Cheng Zhu, Zhixiang Chen
Summary: Salicylic acid (SA) is a phenolic compound produced by plants and is involved in plant growth and stress responses. It is also the main metabolite of aspirin and is responsible for its anti-inflammatory, cardioprotective and antitumor effects. SA targets and activities are conserved or similar in plants and humans, highlighting common biological processes regulated by SA in both organisms. Comparing these shared targets and activities can provide insights into new actions and underlying mechanisms of SA in plants and humans.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Yakun Li, Lihong Ding, Mei Zhou, Zhixiang Chen, Yanfei Ding, Cheng Zhu
Summary: Cadmium, a highly toxic non-essential heavy metal, can be sensed, transported, and detoxified by plants through specialized mechanisms. Recent studies have identified numerous transporters involved in Cd uptake, transport, and detoxification. However, the intricate transcriptional regulatory networks associated with Cd response are still not fully understood.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Yunting Fu, Baofang Fan, Xifeng Li, Hexigeduleng Bao, Cheng Zhu, Zhixiang Chen
Summary: Autophagy and the multivesicular body pathway regulated by LYST-INTERACTING PROTEIN 5 cooperatively protect crucial chloroplast functions under normal growth conditions to promote growth and fitness. The double mutation of atg7/lip5 in Arabidopsis leads to stunted growth, early senescence, reduced survival, and greatly diminished seed production. The impairment of chloroplast functions, including chloroplast sulfate assimilation, photosynthesis, and primary carbon metabolism, contributes to premature senescence and increased accumulation of reactive oxygen species. Blocking salicylic acid signaling prevents early senescence and death of the atg7/lip5 double mutant.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Han Dong, Jiachun Wang, Xuewei Song, Chaoyi Hu, Changan Zhu, Ting Sun, Zhiwen Zhou, Zhangjian Hu, Xiaojian Xia, Jie Zhou, Kai Shi, Yanhong Zhou, Christine H. Foyer, Jingquan Yu
Summary: Light plays a crucial role in plant morphology and crop yield. This study reveals that light regulates tomato bud outgrowth through the HY5 signaling pathway and brassinosteroid signaling pathway. Light activates the expression of HY5, which inhibits the transcription of the central branching regulator BRC1, leading to enhanced bud outgrowth.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Xin-Lin Chen, Xue-Lian Zheng, Tong Xu, Jin-Ping Zou, Wei -Duo Jin, Guang-Hui Wang, Ping Yang, Jie Zhou
Summary: In this study, twelve potential selective autophagy receptors were identified in tomato. Cold stress was found to induce the expression of selective autophagy receptor genes, such as secretory protein 62 (SEC62), next to BRCA1 gene 1a (NBR1a), and NBR1b, but not ATG8 Interacting Protein 2 (ATI2) and other selective autophagy receptors in tomato plants. Silencing these cold-induced selective autophagy receptor genes reduced tomato cold tolerance and led to increased accumulation of cold-induced oxidized proteins and reactive oxygen species (ROS).
ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Qufan Xing, Md. Kamrul Hasan, Zhichao Li, Ting Yang, Weiduo Jin, Zhenyu Qi, Ping Yang, Guanghui Wang, Golam Jalal Ahammed, Jie Zhou
Summary: Cadmium (Cd) pollution poses a serious threat to crop production. This study investigated the hormonal regulation of phytochelatin (PC) synthesis and the role of melatonin in enhancing plant resistance to Cd stress in tomato. Results showed that Cd stress decreased chlorophyll content and CO2 assimilation rate, but increased Cd, H2O2, and MDA accumulation in the shoot, particularly in PCs deficient plants. Exogenous melatonin treatment increased endogenous melatonin and PC contents, alleviated oxidative stress, and improved osmotic balance and nutrient absorption. These findings provide insights into the mechanism of melatonin-regulated PC synthesis and its potential to enhance plant resistance to toxic metal stress.
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jinping Zou, Xinlin Chen, Chenxu Liu, Mingyue Guo, Mukesh Kumar Kanwar, Zhenyu Qi, Ping Yang, Guanghui Wang, Yan Bao, Diane C. Bassham, Jingquan Yu, Jie Zhou
Summary: Autophagy plays a critical role in promoting defense against root-knot nematodes in tomato by degrading negative regulators of jasmonic acid signaling, forming a positive feedback loop with ERF1 for transcriptional activation.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Jiajian Cao, Xuelian Zheng, Dongling Xie, Hui Zhou, Shujun Shao, Jie Zhou
Summary: The ATG6-dependent autophagy pathway regulates nitrogen utilization in tomato plants under low-nitrogen conditions. It increases nitrogen content by controlling the expression of nitrogen transporter genes in roots and enhances nitrogen assimilation efficiency and protein production in leaves. Furthermore, ATG6-dependent autophagy increases plant carbon fixation and photosynthetic capacity.
HORTICULTURE RESEARCH
(2022)