TY  - JOUR
A1  - John, Sheeba
A1  - Olas, Justyna Jadwiga
A1  - Müller-Röber, Bernd
T1  - Regulation of alternative splicing in response to temperature variation in plants
JF  - Journal of experimental botany
N2  - Plants have evolved numerous molecular strategies to cope with perturbations in environmental temperature, and to adjust growth and physiology to limit the negative effects of extreme temperature. One of the strategies involves alternative splicing of primary transcripts to encode alternative protein products or transcript variants destined for degradation by nonsense-mediated decay. Here, we review how changes in environmental temperature-cold, heat, and moderate alterations in temperature-affect alternative splicing in plants, including crops. We present examples of the mode of action of various temperature-induced splice variants and discuss how these alternative splicing events enable favourable plant responses to altered temperatures. Finally, we point out unanswered questions that should be addressed to fully utilize the endogenous mechanisms in plants to adjust their growth to environmental temperature. We also indicate how this knowledge might be used to enhance crop productivity in the future.
KW  - alternative splicing
KW  - ambient temperature
KW  - cold
KW  - heat
KW  - plants
KW  - stress
KW  - adaptation
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erab232
SN  - 0022-0957
SN  - 1460-2431
VL  - 72
IS  - 18
SP  - 6150
EP  - 6163
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -