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ReviewTrends in plant science2018

UTR-Dependent Control of Gene Expression in Plants.

Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Yuming Lu, Gaurav Zinta, Zhaobo Lang, Jian-Kang Zhu

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Review in Trends in plant science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 115 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

115 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ashish Kumar SrivastavaShanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and Center of Excellence for Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China; Permanent address: Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400085, India. Electronic address: ashish@barc.gov.in.
Yuming LuShanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and Center of Excellence for Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
Gaurav ZintaShanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and Center of Excellence for Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
Zhaobo LangShanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and Center of Excellence for Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
Jian-Kang ZhuShanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and Center of Excellence for Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China; Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. Electronic address: jkzhu@purdue.edu.

Funding

CALCIUM SIGNALING--INTRACELL ION HOMEOSTASIS REGULATIONR01GM059138 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI ZHU, JIAN-KANG · 1999 to 2015
$4.4M
DNA Demethylation and Transcriptional Gene SilencingR01GM070795 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI ZHU, JIAN-KANG · 2004 to 2015
$4.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM059138NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM070795
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Throughout their lives, plants sense many developmental and environmental stimuli, and activation of optimal responses against these stimuli requires extensive transcriptional reprogramming. To facilitate this activation, plant mRNA contains untranslated regions (UTRs) that significantly increase the coding capacity of the genome by producing multiple mRNA variants from the same gene. In this review we compare UTRs of arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) and rice (Oryza sativum) at the genome scale to highlight their complexity in crop plants. We discuss different modes of UTR-based regulation with emphasis on genes that regulate multiple plant processes, including flowering, stress responses, and nutrient homeostasis. We demonstrate functional specificity in genes with variable UTR length and propose future research directions.

Indexed as

ArabidopsisGene ExpressionGene Expression Regulation, PlantGenome, PlantOryzaRiboswitchRNA, MessengerRNA, PlantUntranslated RegionsRiboswitchRNA, MessengerRNA, PlantUntranslated Regionsadenosine methylationalternative splicingepigeneticsnonsense-mediated decaypolyadenylationriboswitch

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PMID29223924
PMCPMC5828884

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