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

Yuzhou Yang; Que Kong; Audrey R.Q. Lim; Shaoping Lu; Hu Zhao; Liang Guo; Ling Yuan; Wei Ma

doi:10.1016/j.xplc.2022.100328

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

Yuzhou Yang, Que Kong, Audrey R.Q. Lim, Shaoping Lu, Hu Zhao, Liang Guo, Ling Yuan, Wei Ma

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Abstract

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 the human diet but also as renewable feedstocks for industrial use. 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. We summarize 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.

Original language	English
Article number	100328
Journal	Plant Communications
Volume	3
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xplc.2022.100328
State	Published - Sep 12 2022

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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 ), the National Key R&D Program of China to L.Y. ( 2019YFC1711100 ), the Hubei Hongshan Laboratory Research Fund to L.G. ( 2021HSZD004 ), and the HZAU-AGIS Cooperation Fund to L.G. ( SZYJY2021004 ).

Funders	Funder number
HZAU-AGIS Cooperation Fund	SZYJY2021004
Hubei Hongshan Laboratory Research Fund	2021HSZD004
MOE of Singapore	MOE-T2EP30220-0011
Ministry of Education - Singapore	RG29/20
National Key Research and Development Program of China	2019YFC1711100

Keywords

environmental and developmental signals
oil accumulation
plant oil biosynthesis
seed development
transcription factor
transcriptional regulation

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Biotechnology
Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Plant Science
Cell Biology

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