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ReviewPlants (Basel, Switzerland)2020

The Role of Triacylglycerol in Plant Stress Response.

Junhao Lu, Yang Xu, Juli Wang, Stacy D Singer, Guanqun Chen

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Review in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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59citing papers in PubMed
9.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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59 citing papers in PubMed, 143 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Junhao LuDepartment of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2P5 Alberta, Canada.
Yang XuDepartment of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2P5 Alberta, Canada.
Juli WangDepartment of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2P5 Alberta, Canada.
Stacy D SingerAgriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge Research and Development Centre, Lethbridge, T1J 4B1 Alberta, Canada.
Guanqun ChenDepartment of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2P5 Alberta, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5790-3903
University of Alberta · CAAgriculture and Agri-Food Canada · CA

Funding

Alberta Agricultural and Forestry 2019F135RAlberta Canola Producers Commission 2020F055RAlberta Innovates 2020F055R & 2019F135RCanada Research Chairs Program 231956Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant RGPIN-2016-05926
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vegetable oil is mainly composed of triacylglycerol (TAG), a storage lipid that serves as a major commodity for food and industrial purposes, as well as an alternative biofuel source. While TAG is typically not produced at significant levels in vegetative tissues, emerging evidence suggests that its accumulation in such tissues may provide one mechanism by which plants cope with abiotic stress. Different types of abiotic stress induce lipid remodeling through the action of specific lipases, which results in various alterations in membrane lipid composition. This response induces the formation of toxic lipid intermediates that cause membrane damage or cell death. However, increased levels of TAG under stress conditions are believed to function, at least in part, as a means of sequestering these toxic lipid intermediates. Moreover, the lipid droplets (LDs) in which TAG is enclosed also function as a subcellular factory to provide binding sites and substrates for the biosynthesis of bioactive compounds that protect against insects and fungi. Though our knowledge concerning the role of TAG in stress tolerance is expanding, many gaps in our understanding of the mechanisms driving these processes are still evident. In this review, we highlight progress that has been made to decipher the role of TAG in plant stress response, and we discuss possible ways in which this information could be utilized to improve crops in the future.

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lipid dropletslipid remodelingstorage lipid biosynthesisstress tolerancetriacylglycerol

Identifiers

PMID32276473
PMCPMC7238164
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