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Metabolic footprints in phosphate-starved plants

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Plants’ requirement of Phosphorus (P) as an essential macronutrient is obligatory for their normal growth and metabolism. Besides restricting plants’ primary growth, P depletion affects both primary and secondary metabolism and leads to altered levels of sugars, metabolites, amino acids, and other secondary compounds. Such metabolic shifts help plants optimize their metabolism and growth under P limited conditions. Under P deprivation, both sugar levels and their mobilization change that influences the expression of Pi starvation-inducible genes. Increased sugar repartitioning from shoot to root help root growth and organic acids secretion that in turn promotes phosphate (Pi) uptake from the soil. Other metabolic changes such as lipid remodeling or P reallocation from older to younger leaves release the P from its bound forms in the cell. In this review, we summarize the metabolic footprinting of Pi-starved plants with respect to the benefits offered by such metabolic changes to intracellular Pi homeostasis.

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This study was funded by the Indo-Bulgarian Bilateral Research Cooperation (projects INT/BLG/P-06/2019 and KP-06-India-9). In addition, R.K. acknowledges the financial support from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India (CRG/2018/001033) and to the University of Hyderabad-IoE by MHRD (F11/9/2019-U3(A) and DBT-support to the School of Life Sciences under BUILDER program. A.R. thanks SERB, Government of India (CRG/2018/001033), and UoH BBL for his fellowships. R.S. and Akash thank the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India, for the JRF and SRF fellowships and UoH BBL for the research fellowship.

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  1. Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500046, India

    Abhishek Roychowdhury, Rajat Srivastava,  Akash, Gyanesh Shukla & Rahul Kumar

  2. Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Grigor Zehirov & Kiril Mishev

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Roychowdhury, A., Srivastava, R., Akash et al. Metabolic footprints in phosphate-starved plants. Physiol Mol Biol Plants 29, 755–767 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12298-023-01319-3

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