Transcriptional regulation of oil biosynthesis in seed plants: current understanding, applications and perspectives

Plants produce and accumulate triacylglycerol (TAG) in their seeds as an energy reservoir to support the processes of seed germination and seedling development. Plant seed oils are vital not only for human diets but also as renewable feedstock for industrial uses. TAG biosynthesis consists of two ma...

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Main Authors: Yang, Yuzhou, Kong, Que, Lim, Audrey R. Q., Lu, Shaoping, Zhao, Hu, Guo, Liang, Yuan, Ling, Ma, Wei
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1567812023-02-28T17:10:50Z Transcriptional regulation of oil biosynthesis in seed plants: current understanding, applications and perspectives Yang, Yuzhou Kong, Que Lim, Audrey R. Q. Lu, Shaoping Zhao, Hu Guo, Liang Yuan, Ling Ma, Wei School of Biological Sciences Science::Biological sciences Plant Oil Biosynthesis Oil Accumulation Plants produce and accumulate triacylglycerol (TAG) in their seeds as an energy reservoir to support the processes of seed germination and seedling development. Plant seed oils are vital not only for human diets but also as renewable feedstock for industrial uses. TAG biosynthesis consists of two major steps: de novo fatty acid biosynthesis in the plastids and TAG assembly in the endoplasmic reticulum. The latest advances in unraveling transcriptional regulation have shed light on the molecular mechanisms of plant oil biosynthesis. This review summarizes the recent progress in understanding the regulatory mechanisms of well-characterized and newly discovered transcription factors and other types of regulators that control plant fatty acid biosynthesis. The emerging picture shows that plant oil biosynthesis responds to developmental and environmental cues that stimulate a network of interacting transcriptional activators and repressors, which, in turn, fine-tune the spatiotemporal regulation of the pathway genes. Ministry of Education (MOE) Submitted/Accepted version This work was supported by Ministry of Education (MOE) of Singapore Tier 1 to W.M. (RG29/20),MOE of Singapore Tier 2 to W.M. (MOE-T2EP30220-0011), National Key R&D Program of China to L.Y. (2019YFC1711100), Hubei Hongshan Laboratory Research Fund to L.G. (2021HSZD004) and HZAU-AGIS Cooperation Fund to L.G. (SZYJY2021004). 2022-04-25T01:18:38Z 2022-04-25T01:18:38Z 2022 Journal Article Yang, Y., Kong, Q., Lim, A. R. Q., Lu, S., Zhao, H., Guo, L., Yuan, L. & Ma, W. (2022). Transcriptional regulation of oil biosynthesis in seed plants: current understanding, applications and perspectives. Plant Communications. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xplc.2022.100328 2590-3462 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/156781 10.1016/j.xplc.2022.100328 en RG29/20 MOE-T2EP30220-0011 Plant Communications © 2022 The Author(s). Published by the Plant Communications Shanghai Editorial Office in association with Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier Inc., on behalf of CSPB and CEMPS, CAS. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. application/pdf
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Singapore
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topic Science::Biological sciences
Plant Oil Biosynthesis
Oil Accumulation
spellingShingle Science::Biological sciences
Plant Oil Biosynthesis
Oil Accumulation
Yang, Yuzhou
Kong, Que
Lim, Audrey R. Q.
Lu, Shaoping
Zhao, Hu
Guo, Liang
Yuan, Ling
Ma, Wei
Transcriptional regulation of oil biosynthesis in seed plants: current understanding, applications and perspectives
description Plants produce and accumulate triacylglycerol (TAG) in their seeds as an energy reservoir to support the processes of seed germination and seedling development. Plant seed oils are vital not only for human diets but also as renewable feedstock for industrial uses. TAG biosynthesis consists of two major steps: de novo fatty acid biosynthesis in the plastids and TAG assembly in the endoplasmic reticulum. The latest advances in unraveling transcriptional regulation have shed light on the molecular mechanisms of plant oil biosynthesis. This review summarizes the recent progress in understanding the regulatory mechanisms of well-characterized and newly discovered transcription factors and other types of regulators that control plant fatty acid biosynthesis. The emerging picture shows that plant oil biosynthesis responds to developmental and environmental cues that stimulate a network of interacting transcriptional activators and repressors, which, in turn, fine-tune the spatiotemporal regulation of the pathway genes.
author2 School of Biological Sciences
author_facet School of Biological Sciences
Yang, Yuzhou
Kong, Que
Lim, Audrey R. Q.
Lu, Shaoping
Zhao, Hu
Guo, Liang
Yuan, Ling
Ma, Wei
format Article
author Yang, Yuzhou
Kong, Que
Lim, Audrey R. Q.
Lu, Shaoping
Zhao, Hu
Guo, Liang
Yuan, Ling
Ma, Wei
author_sort Yang, Yuzhou
title Transcriptional regulation of oil biosynthesis in seed plants: current understanding, applications and perspectives
title_short Transcriptional regulation of oil biosynthesis in seed plants: current understanding, applications and perspectives
title_full Transcriptional regulation of oil biosynthesis in seed plants: current understanding, applications and perspectives
title_fullStr Transcriptional regulation of oil biosynthesis in seed plants: current understanding, applications and perspectives
title_full_unstemmed Transcriptional regulation of oil biosynthesis in seed plants: current understanding, applications and perspectives
title_sort transcriptional regulation of oil biosynthesis in seed plants: current understanding, applications and perspectives
publishDate 2022
url https://hdl.handle.net/10356/156781
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