What role, if any, does splicing regulation play in defence against pathogens, modulating developmental processes, and adapting to environmental stress?
Plants can respond to various light parameters including intensity, direction, duration and spectral quality, and modulate the developmental processes accordingly.
Besides roles in response to biotic and abiotic stress, WRKY proteins were also implicated in processes that modulate plant developmental processes such as morphogenesis of trichomes and embryos, senescence, dormancy, and metabolic pathways [ 2].
Since selection acts on variation to produce evolutionary changes, understanding how variation is generated and modulated through developmental processes is the core of evo-devo.
Jasmonic acid is a multifunctional growth regulator in plants that modulates many developmental processes [12] and has repeatedly been reported in the context of flower development.
Additionally, a molecular circadian clock regulates daily cyclic expression in a large proportion of the plant transcriptome modulating multiple developmental processes in diverse plant organs and developmental phases.
Moreover, we also identified commonly enriched pathways for exclusive REST target genes and exclusive CoREST target genes, suggesting that REST and CoREST modulate the same developmental processes through different subsets of genes.
Calcium ions are known to activate and modulate many plant developmental processes, including sexual reproduction (Kong and Jia, 2004; Ge et al., 2007), but are also active during pollen androgenesis (Reynolds, 1990) and organogenesis in vitro (Falasca et al., 2004, 2008).
Plants monitor photoperiod changes by means of light-sensitive pigments, including PHY, which play central roles in modulating key physiological and developmental processes.
Pan et al. showed that SHP2 regulates Sprouty positively at the transcriptional level and negatively at the post-translational level and concluded that dynamic regulation of Sprouty by SHP2 might be important not only for modulating Ras signaling in developmental processes, but also for RTK signaling in general [ 37].
