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ArticlePlant physiology2021

RCB-mediated chlorophagy caused by oversupply of nitrogen suppresses phosphate-starvation stress in plants.

Yushi Yoshitake, Sakuya Nakamura, Daiki Shinozaki, Masanori Izumi, Kohki Yoshimoto, Hiroyuki Ohta, Mie Shimojima

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Article in Plant physiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Autophagy-Mediated Regulation of Different Meristems in Plants.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Yushi YoshitakeSchool of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8501, Japan.
Sakuya NakamuraCenter for Sustainable Resource Science, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
Daiki ShinozakiDepartment of Life Science, School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 214-8571, Japan.
Masanori IzumiCenter for Sustainable Resource Science, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
Kohki YoshimotoDepartment of Life Science, School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 214-8571, Japan.
Hiroyuki OhtaSchool of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8501, Japan.
Mie ShimojimaSchool of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8501, Japan.
Tokyo Institute of Technology · JPMeiji University · JPRIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inorganic phosphate (Pi) and nitrogen (N) are essential nutrients for plant growth. We found that a five-fold oversupply of nitrate rescues Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plants from Pi-starvation stress. Analyses of transgenic plants that overexpressed GFP-AUTOPHAGY8 showed that an oversupply of nitrate induced autophagy flux under Pi-depleted conditions. Expression of DIN6 and DIN10, the carbon (C) starvation-responsive genes, was upregulated when nitrate was oversupplied under Pi starvation, which suggested that the plants recognized the oversupply of nitrate as C starvation stress because of the reduction in the C/N ratio. Indeed, formation of Rubisco-containing bodies (RCBs), which contain chloroplast stroma and are induced by C starvation, was enhanced when nitrate was oversupplied under Pi starvation. Moreover, autophagy-deficient mutants did not release Pi (unlike wild-type plants), exhibited no RCB accumulation inside vacuoles, and were hypersensitive to Pi starvation, indicating that RCB-mediated chlorophagy is involved in Pi starvation tolerance. Thus, our results showed that the Arabidopsis response to Pi starvation is closely linked with N and C availability and that autophagy is a key factor that controls plant growth under Pi starvation.

Indexed as

ArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsAutophagyCarbonChloroplastsMicroautophagyMutationNitratesNitrogenPhosphatesPlants, Genetically ModifiedRibulose-Bisphosphate CarboxylaseStress, PhysiologicalVacuolesArabidopsis ProteinsCarbonNitratesNitrogenPhosphatesRibulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase

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PMID33721901
PMCPMC8133631
OpenAlexW3120416427

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