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The Plant Target of Rapamycin: A Conduc TOR of Nutrition and Metabolism in Photosynthetic Organisms

Journal

GENES
Volume 11, Issue 11, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/genes11111285

Keywords

target of rapamycin (TOR); plant; metabolism; photosynthetic organisms; nutrition; sugars; carbon; nitrogen; sulfur

Funding

  1. Fondation de la RechercheMedicale [FRM ECO201806006346]
  2. AgreenSkills+ EU fellowship program [FP7-609398]
  3. French State grant (Saclay Plant Sciences) [ANR-17-EUR-0007, ANR-11-IDEX-0003-02]

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Living organisms possess many mechanisms to sense nutrients and favorable conditions, which allow them to grow and develop. Photosynthetic organisms are very diverse, from green unicellular algae to multicellular flowering plants, but most of them are sessile and thus unable to escape from the biotic and abiotic stresses they experience. The Target of Rapamycin (TOR) signaling pathway is conserved in all eukaryotes and acts as a central regulatory hub between growth and extrinsic factors, such as nutrients or stress. However, relatively little is known about the regulations and roles of this pathway in plants and algae. Although some features of the TOR pathway seem to have been highly conserved throughout evolution, others clearly differ in plants, perhaps reflecting adaptations to different lifestyles and the rewiring of this primordial signaling module to adapt to specific requirements. Indeed, TOR is involved in plant responses to a vast array of signals including nutrients, hormones, light, stresses or pathogens. In this review, we will summarize recent studies that address the regulations of TOR by nutrients in photosynthetic organisms, and the roles of TOR in controlling important metabolic pathways, highlighting similarities and differences with the other eukaryotes.

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