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ReviewPlant communications2022

Transcriptional regulation of oil biosynthesis in seed plants: Current understanding, applications, and perspectives.

Yuzhou Yang, Que Kong, Audrey R Q Lim, Shaoping Lu, Hu Zhao, Liang Guo, Ling Yuan, Wei Ma

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Review in Plant communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
73citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
19.2field-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

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

73 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 151 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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13 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Yuzhou YangSchool of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637551, Singapore.
Que KongSchool of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637551, Singapore.
Audrey R Q LimSchool of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637551, Singapore.
Shaoping LuNational Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan 430070, China.
Hu ZhaoNational Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan 430070, China.
Liang GuoNational Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan 430070, China. Electronic address: guoliang@mail.hzau.edu.cn.
Ling YuanDepartment of Plant and Soil Sciences, Kentucky Tobacco Research and Development Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, USA; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China. Electronic address: lyuan3@uky.edu.
Wei MaSchool of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637551, Singapore. Electronic address: weima@ntu.edu.sg.
Nanyang Technological University · SGHuazhong Agricultural University · CNUniversity of Kentucky · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plants produce and accumulate triacylglycerol (TAG) in their seeds as an energy reservoir to support the processes of seed germination and seedling development. Plant seed oils are vital not only for the human diet but also as renewable feedstocks for industrial use. TAG biosynthesis consists of two major steps: de novo fatty acid biosynthesis in the plastids and TAG assembly in the endoplasmic reticulum. The latest advances in unraveling transcriptional regulation have shed light on the molecular mechanisms of plant oil biosynthesis. We summarize recent progress in understanding the regulatory mechanisms of well-characterized and newly discovered transcription factors and other types of regulators that control plant fatty acid biosynthesis. The emerging picture shows that plant oil biosynthesis responds to developmental and environmental cues that stimulate a network of interacting transcriptional activators and repressors, which in turn fine-tune the spatiotemporal regulation of the pathway genes.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, PlantPlant OilsPlantsFatty AcidsSeedsTranscription FactorsTriglyceridesFatty AcidsPlant OilsTranscription FactorsTriglyceridesenvironmental and developmental signalsoil accumulationplant oil biosynthesisseed developmenttranscriptional regulationtranscription factor

Identifiers

PMID35605194
PMCPMC9482985
OpenAlexW4224229884

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