About the role of trehalose in plants
Trehalose is an important disaccharide which takes a major role of a stress protector in many organisms, including green algae and lower plants. It has long been thought that trehalose functions in higher plants are marginal and that they have been overtaken by sucrose. In the last years it has been...
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| description | Trehalose is an important disaccharide which takes a major role of a stress protector in many organisms, including green algae and lower plants. It has long been thought that trehalose functions in higher plants are marginal and that they have been overtaken by sucrose. In the last years it has been discovered that trehalose takes on a lot of important physiological roles in vascular plants metabolism. It is an important signal metabolite of sucrose availability and maintains sucrose concentrations within an appropriate range. It also contributes to starch synthesis and degradation and to synthesis of organic acids. Trehalose-sucrose nexus was found to be very important in plant interactions with pathogenic organisms and herbivorous insects. Furthermore, trehalose is involved in response of plant to abiotic stressors such as drought, cold, salinity and hypoxia. It contributes in regulation of stomatal conductivity where it interacts with abscisic acid. All this makes trehalose an important primary metabolite which significantly influences plant growth and development such as induction of flowering and stimulation of photosynthesis. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d00aa63bd527449792c9ebdbb5e1b0eb2025-08-20T02:58:55ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Acta Agriculturae Slovenica1854-19412018-04-01111121922710.14720/aas.2018.111.1.2119146About the role of trehalose in plantsTjaša GORJANC0Dominik VODNIK1Izletniška ulica 1, 1231 Ljubljana - Črnuče, SloveniaUniversity of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Agronomy Department, Jamnikarjeva ulica 101, SI-1111 Ljubljana, SloveniaTrehalose is an important disaccharide which takes a major role of a stress protector in many organisms, including green algae and lower plants. It has long been thought that trehalose functions in higher plants are marginal and that they have been overtaken by sucrose. In the last years it has been discovered that trehalose takes on a lot of important physiological roles in vascular plants metabolism. It is an important signal metabolite of sucrose availability and maintains sucrose concentrations within an appropriate range. It also contributes to starch synthesis and degradation and to synthesis of organic acids. Trehalose-sucrose nexus was found to be very important in plant interactions with pathogenic organisms and herbivorous insects. Furthermore, trehalose is involved in response of plant to abiotic stressors such as drought, cold, salinity and hypoxia. It contributes in regulation of stomatal conductivity where it interacts with abscisic acid. All this makes trehalose an important primary metabolite which significantly influences plant growth and development such as induction of flowering and stimulation of photosynthesis.https://journals.uni-lj.si/aas/article/view/12754trehalosesugar metabolismsucrosestarchstress |
| spellingShingle | Tjaša GORJANC Dominik VODNIK About the role of trehalose in plants Acta Agriculturae Slovenica trehalose sugar metabolism sucrose starch stress |
| title | About the role of trehalose in plants |
| title_full | About the role of trehalose in plants |
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| title_full_unstemmed | About the role of trehalose in plants |
| title_short | About the role of trehalose in plants |
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| topic | trehalose sugar metabolism sucrose starch stress |
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