ReviewPlant communications2025
Transport of secondary metabolites in plants: Mechanistic insights and transporter engineering for crop improvement.
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- Plant metabolic adaptation to nitrogen scarcity: the role of biological nitrification inhibitors.Essays in biochemistry · 2026Review
- The plasma membrane ABC transporter Sl-ABCB5 mediates acylsugar secretion from tomato trichomes to confer insect resistance.Plant communications · 2026Article
- Chassis selection and metabolic fine-tuning enable efficient in planta betalain production.Plant physiology · 2026Article
- Structural basis of glucosinolate recognition and polyspecific transport by the glucosinolate transporter GTR1.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2026Article
- Flavonoids in Plant Salt Stress Responses: Biosynthesis, Regulation, Functions, and Signaling Networks.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Mobile small RNAs as mediators of stress-induced epigenomic remodeling and systemic stress adaptation.Frontiers in epigenetics and epigenomics · 2026Review
- A voyage of reprogrammable metabolic bioengineering reshapes plant defense: from editing tools to synthetic systems.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Phenylpropanoid Pathway-Derived Secondary Metabolites Under Abiotic Stress.Physiologia plantarumReview
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Abstract
Secondary metabolites (SMs) are essential for plant survival and adaptation, playing multiple roles in ecological interactions such as defense and stress tolerance. Specialized transporters relocate SMs from their synthesis sites to defense tissues or storage organs. The spatiotemporal distribution of defense-related SMs is a key determinant of plant fitness. However, the accumulation of anti-nutritional SMs in crop seeds or fruits can pose health risks to humans and livestock. Recent advances have revealed the critical role of SM transporters in optimizing metabolite allocation. This review examines the transport mechanisms of both defense and anti-nutritional SMs, with a particular focus on long-distance transporters that regulate source-sink dynamics and their potential applications in agricultural biotechnology. We highlight innovative strategies to manipulate transporter activity, ranging from multi-omics integration to precision engineering, and discuss how these approaches can be used to design crops with enhanced defense capacity, increased levels of beneficial compounds, and improved palatability of seeds and fruits. Finally, we outline emerging technologies and conceptual frameworks for discovering and characterizing long-distance SM transporters for crop improvement. Transporter-focused strategies offer promising solutions to global agricultural challenges and provide new opportunities for advancing crop improvement in the context of global food security.
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