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ReviewAnnual review of cell and developmental biology2021

Dynamic Nutrient Signaling Networks in Plants.

Lei Li, Kun-Hsiang Liu, Jen Sheen

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Review in Annual review of cell and developmental biology, 2021. 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
19.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

59 citing papers in PubMed, 131 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Lei LiDepartment of Molecular Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA; email: leili@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu, sheen@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu.
Kun-Hsiang LiuDepartment of Molecular Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA; email: leili@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu, sheen@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu.
Jen SheenDepartment of Molecular Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA; email: leili@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu, sheen@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

Glucose Signal Transduction Pathways in PlantsR01GM060493 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI SHEEN, JEN · 2000 to 2017
$5.7M
Plant Nutrient-Growth Signaling NetworkR01GM129093 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI SHEEN, JEN · 2018 to 2025
$2.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM060493NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM129093
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

Indexed as

Plant DevelopmentSignal TransductionNutrientsPlantsNutrientsglucose signalingHEXOKINASE1HXK1nitrate signalingphosphate signalingSNF1-RELATED PROTEIN KINASE1SNRK1TARGET OF RAPAMYCINTOR

Identifiers

PMID34351784
PMCPMC8497281
OpenAlexW3191359177

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