title: Functional diversity of jasmonates in rice.
abstract: Phytohormone jasmonates (JA) play essential roles in plants, such as regulating development and growth, responding to environmental changes, and resisting abiotic and biotic stresses. During signaling, JA interacts, either synergistically or antagonistically, with other hormones, such as salicylic acid (SA), gibberellin (GA), ethylene (ET), auxin, brassinosteroid (BR), and abscisic acid (ABA), to regulate gene expression in regulatory networks, conferring physiological and metabolic adjustments in plants. As an important staple crop, rice is a major nutritional source for human beings and feeds one third of the world's population. Recent years have seen significant progress in the understanding of the JA pathway in rice. In this review, we summarize the diverse functions of JA, and discuss the JA interplay with other hormones, as well as light, in this economically important crop. We believe that a better understanding of the JA pathway will lead to practical biotechnological applications in rice breeding and cultivation.
authors.affiliation: College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China, liuzhengxp@yeah.net.
authors.forename: Zheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Shumin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Ning
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Hongyun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yanhong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Yuling
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Liping
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yuanhuai
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Han