Regulation of alternative splicing in response to temperature variation in plants
- 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.
Author details: | Sheeba JohnORCiDGND, Justyna Jadwiga OlasORCiDGND, Bernd Müller-RöberORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erab232 |
ISSN: | 0022-0957 |
ISSN: | 1460-2431 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34028544 |
Title of parent work (English): | Journal of experimental botany |
Publisher: | Oxford Univ. Press |
Place of publishing: | Oxford |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2021/05/24 |
Publication year: | 2021 |
Release date: | 2023/11/27 |
Tag: | adaptation; alternative splicing; ambient temperature; cold; heat; plants; stress |
Volume: | 72 |
Issue: | 18 |
Number of pages: | 14 |
First page: | 6150 |
Last Page: | 6163 |
Funding institution: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), German Research Foundation (DFG) [973]; European UnionEuropean Commission [739582, 664620]; International Max Planck Research School 'Primary Metabolism and Plant Growth' (IMPRSPMPG) |
Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie |
DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |