Research Advances in the Glycosylation of Plant Hormones

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  • Key Laboratory of Plant Cell Engineering and Germplasm Innovation, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China

Received date: 2013-07-17

  Revised date: 2013-11-15

  Online published: 2014-07-02

Abstract

Plant hormones play important roles in regulating plant growth and development. Because hormone responses are usually concentration-dependent, endogenous hormone levels must be tightly controlled. Glycosylation may be one of the important modifications modulating active hormone levels. With the cloning and identification of glycosyltransferases genes involved in glycosylation of plant hormones, the mechanism and roles of glycosylation of different plant hormones were gradually revealed. This review focuses on recent research progress in understanding enzyme activities and biological functions of glycosyltransferases for auxins, cytokinins, abscisic acids, brassinosteroids, salicylic acid and jasmonic acid. We discuss remaining questions to be answered and prospects for hormone glycosylation study.

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Guizhi Zhang, Jishan Lin, Yanjie Li, Bingkai Hou . Research Advances in the Glycosylation of Plant Hormones[J]. Chinese Bulletin of Botany, 2014 , 49(5) : 515 -523 . DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1259.2014.00515

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