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    Temperature regulation of cell cycle and growth dynamics in Arabidopsis
    (Portland Press, 2026) Sundaravadivelu, Vasundara; Raipuria, Ritesh Kumar; Ranjan, Aashish
    The plant cell cycle is a highly coordinated and regulated process that integrates endogenous and environmental signals to control cell division, meristem maintenance, and cell fate specification for growth and development. Temperature is a critical environmental signal that regulates the cell cycle to manifest developmental plasticity in Arabidopsis roots and shoots. Arabidopsis plants exhibit either adaptive growth responses or arrested growth, depending on the temperature regime. The temperature-mediated growth dynamics in Arabidopsis involve altered cell-cycle regulation. While plant developmental and physiological responses to temperature have been extensively studied, the integration of temperature signalling cues with cell-cycle dynamics to regulate growth adaptation remains poorly understood. The present review not only compiles existing information on temperature-mediated regulation of cell-cycle dynamics but also provides a perspective on multidisciplinary approaches to investigate cell-cycle dynamics at spatiotemporal resolution in Arabidopsis adaptive growth responses.
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    Rice Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase regulates serotonin accumulation and interacts with cell cycle regulators under prolonged UV-B exposure
    (Elsevier B.V., 2023) Banerjee, Gopal; Singh, Dhanraj; Pandey, Chandana; Jonwal, Sarvesh; Basu, Udita; Parida, Swarup K.; Pandey, Ashutosh; Sinha, Alok Krishna
    Stress conditions such as UV-B exposure activates MAPKs in Arabidopsis and rice. UV-B radiation is hazardous to plant as it causes photosystem disruption, DNA damage and ROS generation. Here we report its effect on biological pathways by studying the global changes in transcript profile in rice seedling exposed to UV-B radiation for 1 h and 16 h. Short UV-B exposure (1 h) led to moderate changes, while a drastic change in transcript landscape was observed after long term UV-B exposure (16 h) in rice seedlings. Prolonged UV-B exposure negatively impacts the expression of cell cycle regulating genes and several other metabolic pathways in developing seedlings. MAP kinase signaling cascade gets activated upon UV-B exposure similar to reports in Arabidopsis indicating conservation of its function in both dicot and monocot. Expression analysis in inducible overexpression transgenic lines of MPK3 and MPK6 shows higher transcript abundance of phytoalexin biosynthesis gene like Oryzalexin D synthase and Momilactone A synthase, along with serotonin biosynthesis genes. An accumulation of serotonin was observed upon UV-B exposure and its abundance positively correlates with the MPK3 and MPK6 transcript level in the respective over-expression lines. Interestingly, multiple cell cycle inhibitor proteins including WEE1 and SMR1 interact with MPK3 and MPK6 thus, implying a major role of this pathway in cell cycle regulation under stress condition. Overall overexpression of MPK3 and MPK6 found to be detrimental for rice as overexpression lines shows higher cell death and compromised tolerance to UV-B.
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    High temperature restricts cell division and leaf size by coordination of PIF4 and TCP4 transcription factors
    (Oxford University Press, 2022) Saini, Kumud; Dwivedi, Aditi; Ranjan, Aashish
    High ambient temperature suppresses Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) rosette leaf area and elongates the stem and petiole. While the mechanism underlying the temperature-induced elongation response has been extensively studied, the genetic basis of temperature regulation of leaf size is largely unknown. Here, we show that warm temperature inhibits cell proliferation in Arabidopsis leaves, resulting in fewer cells compared to the control condition. Cellular phenotyping and genetic and biochemical analyses established the key roles of PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR4 (PIF4) and TEOSINTE BRANCHED1/CYCLOIDEA/PCF4 (TCP4) transcription factors in the suppression of Arabidopsis leaf area under high temperature by a reduction in cell number. We show that temperature-mediated suppression of cell proliferation requires PIF4, which interacts with TCP4 and regulates the expression of the cell cycle inhibitor KIP-RELATED PROTEIN1 (KRP1) to control leaf size under high temperature. Warm temperature induces binding of both PIF4 and TCP4 to the KRP1 promoter. PIF4 binding to KRP1 under high temperature is TCP4 dependent as TCP4 regulates PIF4 transcript levels under high temperature. We propose a model where a warm temperature-mediated accumulation of PIF4 in leaf cells promotes its binding to the KRP1 promoter in a TCP4-dependent way to regulate cell production and leaf size. Our finding of high-temperature-mediated transcriptional upregulation of KRP1 integrates a developmental signal with an environmental signal that converges on a basal cell regulatory process.
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    Plant cell cycle regulators: Mitogen-activated protein kinase, a new regulating switch?
    (Elsevier B.V., 2020) Banerjee, Gopal; Singh, Dhanraj; Sinha, Alok Krishna
    Cell cycle is essential for the maintenance of genetic material and continuity of a species. Its regulation involves a complex interplay between multiple proteins with diverse molecular functions such as the kinases, transcription factors, proteases and phosphatases. Every step of this cycle requires a certain combination of these protein regulators which paves the way for the next stage. It is now evident that plants have their own unique features in the context of cell cycle regulation. Cell cycle in plants is not only necessary for maintenance of its physiomorphological parameter but it also regulates traits important for mankind like grain or fruit size. This makes it even more important to understand how plants regulate its cell cycle amidst various a/biotic stresses it is subjected to during its lifetime. The association of MAPK signaling pathways with every major developmental and stress response pathways in plants raises the question of its potential role in cell cycle regulation. There are number of cell cycle regulating proteins with putative sites for MAPK phosphorylation. The MAPK signaling pathway may directly or in a parallel pathway regulate the plant cell cycle. Unraveling the role of MAPK in cell cycle will open up new arenas to explore.