Orchestrating plant direct and indirect phosphate uptake pathways

Peng Wang; Erik Limpens; Ruifeng Yao

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2021.12.005

Orchestrating plant direct and indirect phosphate uptake pathways

Trends Plant Sci. 2022 Apr;27(4):319-321. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.12.005. Epub 2021 Dec 22.

Authors

Peng Wang¹, Erik Limpens², Ruifeng Yao³

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics and Developmental Regulation, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China. Electronic address: wangpengkop@gmail.com.
² Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen 6708PB, The Netherlands. Electronic address: erik.limpens@wur.nl.
³ State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics and Developmental Regulation, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China. Electronic address: ryao@hnu.edu.cn.

PMID: 34953721
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.12.005

Abstract

A recent groundbreaking study by Shi et al. reveals an extensive transcriptional regulatory network for arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis in rice. The finding that phosphate starvation response (PHR) transcription factors centrally orchestrate the direct and indirect AM pathways for inorganic phosphate (Pi) uptake in rice opens a wealth of opportunities for plant breeding to enhance nutrient acquisition.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Gene Expression Regulation, Plant / genetics
Mycorrhizae* / physiology
Oryza* / genetics
Oryza* / metabolism
Phosphates / metabolism
Plant Breeding
Plant Proteins / genetics
Plant Proteins / metabolism
Plant Roots / genetics
Plant Roots / metabolism
Plants / genetics
Plants / metabolism
Symbiosis / physiology

Substances

Phosphates
Plant Proteins