Dormancy in Plants

Soppe, Wim J. J.; Bentsink, Leónie

doi:10.1002/9780470015902.a0002045.pub2

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“…The seed represents a key adaptation in the evolutionary success and diversification of land plants, mainly due to the desiccation tolerance associated with the entrance of the embryo into a quiescent state (Vicente-Carbajosa and Carbonero, 2005;Soppe and Bentsink, 2016). As such, seeds facilitate plant dispersal and growth resumption under optimal environmental conditions.…”

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The AFL subfamily of B3 transcription factors: evolution and function in angiosperm seeds

Carbonero

Iglesias‐Fernández

Vicente‐Carbajosa

2016

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Seed development follows zygotic embryogenesis; during the maturation phase reserves accumulate and desiccation tolerance is acquired. This is tightly regulated at the transcriptional level and the AFL (ABI3/FUS3/LEC2) subfamily of B3 transcription factors (TFs) play a central role. They alter hormone biosynthesis, mainly in regards to abscisic acid and gibberellins, and also regulate the expression of other TFs and/or modulate their downstream activity via protein-protein interactions. This review deals with the origin of AFL TFs, which can be traced back to non-vascular plants such as Physcomitrella patens and achieves foremost expansion in the angiosperms. In green algae, like the unicellular Chlamydomonas reinhardtii or the pluricellular Klebsormidium flaccidum, a single B3 gene and four B3 paralogous genes are annotated, respectively. However, none of them present with the structural features of the AFL subfamily, with the exception of the B3 DNA-binding domain. Phylogenetic analysis groups the AFL TFs into four Major Clusters of Ortologous Genes (MCOGs). The origin and function of these genes is discussed in view of their expression patterns and in the context of major regulatory interactions in seeds of monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous species.

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The AFL subfamily of B3 transcription factors: evolution and function in angiosperm seeds

Carbonero

Iglesias‐Fernández

Vicente‐Carbajosa

2016

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“…Major retrograde signaling pathways based on the GUN family (GENOMES UNCOUPLED) have experienced an expansion along the trajectory from algae to land plants [39], but the exact biochemical role of GUN1, in particular, has remained enigmatic for decades and a potential role in early evolution has not been thoroughly investigated. Within the plastid stroma, green algae form starch molecules as polysaccharide reserves that enable the organism to pause its activity, thus aiding colonization of a habitat in which continuous growth could be lethal [40].…”

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The greening ashore

Schreiber

Rensing

Gould

2022

Trends in Plant Science

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“…Dormancy is a main determinant period in the plant life cycle. It has strong variation between species [7].…”

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Climate as the Major Factor Controlling Phenology

Guesmi¹

2021

Agrometeorology

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The witnessed aberrance and irregularities in the timing of pheno-phases is an undeniable evidence of the reality of the climate change and hence proves the complete control of climate over phenology. In fact, some researchers mentioned the advance of blooming and the delay of defoliation to the mid of winter as well as the disappearance of many animal and vegetal species. This would visibly illustrates the impact of climate changes which became a factual reality. These facts a long with the rhythmicity of life under the climate control and seasonality makes the importance of this chapter unequivocal, and a backbone for this very book of “Agrometeorology”. Accordingly, this chapter treats each phenophase from dormancy to fructification to cover all the plant life cycle. For each of which we focus on how climate is intimately controlling the biological processes of each life phase and how climatic elements are the strongest and first factor which induces plant to starts the appropriate phenophase according to the fitting season. Plant is indeed very sensitive to seasonal variation in climate elements which induces the transcription of specific genes to produce specific enzymes which to their turn are with specific act on specific cells and tissues. Hence there is a high harmony between plant physiological response and climate seasonality endorsed by the circadian clock which is merely created by the historical subjection of plants to the impact of climate. Nonetheless, the recent climate changes are seemingly to be against this natural harmony between phenology and climate. This should due to their erraticism which may cause damages to the ecosystem and available resources. Thence, this chapter within this book would be inspiring for some strategies of adaptation to the climate changes to avoid such a prejudice against crops by adjusting the agricultural calendar and planting dates to avoid coincidence of fragile phenophases (germination, flowering, and fructification) with climatic hazards.

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Dormancy in Plants

Cited by 8 publications

References 44 publications

The AFL subfamily of B3 transcription factors: evolution and function in angiosperm seeds

The AFL subfamily of B3 transcription factors: evolution and function in angiosperm seeds

The greening ashore

Climate as the Major Factor Controlling Phenology

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