Brassinosteroid signaling and molecular crosstalk with nutrients in plants

As sessile organisms, plants have evolved sophisticated mechanisms to optimize their growth and development in response to fluctuating nutrient levels. Brassinosteroids (BRs) are a group of plant steroid hormones that play critical roles in plant growth and developmental processes as well as plant responses to environmental stimuli. Recently, multiple molecular mechanisms have been proposed to explain the inte-gration of BRs with different nutrient signaling processes to coordinate gene expression, metabolism, growth, and survival. Here, we review recent advances in understanding the molecular regulatory mech-anisms of the BR signaling pathway and the multifaceted roles of BR in the intertwined sensing, signaling, and metabolic processes of sugar, nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron. Further understanding and exploring these BR-related processes and mechanisms will facilitate advances in crop breeding for higher resource efficiency.Copyright (c) 2023, The Authors. Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Genetics Society of China. Published by Elsevier Limited and Science Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Plants have evolved sophisticated mechanisms to optimize growth and development in response to fluctuating nutrient levels. Brassinosteroids (BRs) play critical roles in plant growth, development, and responses to the environment, and are integrated with different nutrient signaling processes to coordinate gene expression, metabolism, growth, and survival.