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Plant hormones and nutrient signaling

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Plants count on a wide variety of metabolic, physiological, and developmental responses to adapt their growth to variations in mineral nutrient availability. To react to such variations plants have evolved complex sensing and signaling mechanisms that allow them to monitor the external and internal concentration of each of these nutrients, both in absolute terms and also relatively to the status of other nutrients. Recent evidence has shown that hormones participate in the control of these regulatory networks. Conversely, mineral nutrient conditions influence hormone biosynthesis, further supporting close interrelation between hormonal stimuli and nutritional homeostasis. In this review, we summarize these evidences and analyze possible transcriptional correlations between hormonal and nutritional responses, as a means to further characterize the role of hormones in the response of plants to limiting nutrients in soil.

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Abbreviations

Pi:

Inorganic phosphate

PSR:

Pi starvation responses

CK:

Cytokinins

JA:

Jasmonic acid

ABA:

Abscisic acid

GA:

Gibberellins

BR:

Brassinosteroids

SA:

Salicylic acid

ROS:

Reactive oxygen species

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The authors regret that, owing to space limitations, not all relevant work on the topics described above could be cited. We thank Salomé Prat, Laurent Nussaume, and Wolf-Ruediger Scheible for critical reading of the manuscript. Research in our laboratory is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN; grants BIO2005-09390 and CONSOLIDER-2007-28317; J.P.-A.) and the Comunidad de Madrid (grant S-GEN-0191-2006; V.R.). M.R.-T. and X.C.-L. are recipients of predoctoral fellowships from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC; JAE Program) and the Spanish MEC (FPI Program), respectively. V.R. acknowledges the support of a “Ramón y Cajal” fellowship from the Spanish MICINN.

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Supplementary Table 1

Data used to carry out the comparisons among transcriptional effects of nutrient starvation stresses and hormone treatments shown in Fig. 1. The upper, upper-middle and lower-middle tables, show the ratio (observed/expected), the observed number of responsive genes shared by each nutrient stress and harmonal treatment, and the expected values under random distribution, respectively. The total number of genes (“total genes”) that are up-regulated (“Up”; ≥2-fold) or down-regulated (“Down”; ≤0.5-fold) in a particular nutrient starvation stress is shown. The number of shared genes that are up- or down-regulated in response to a particular nutrient stress and hormonal treatment is indicated. The lower panel displays the chi-squared statistical significance of each observed vs. expected comparison. Transcriptiome data corresponding to CK, ABA, BR, ethylene, GA, auxin, JA and SA, and K-, N-, and S-starvation treatments was obtained from GENENVESTIGATOR (Zimmermann et al. 2004) and for the P-starvation treatment the Misson et al. (2005) data was used. (XLS 30 kb)

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Rubio, V., Bustos, R., Irigoyen, M.L. et al. Plant hormones and nutrient signaling. Plant Mol Biol 69, 361–373 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11103-008-9380-y

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