title: Role of alternative pre-mRNA splicing in temperature signaling.
abstract: Developmental plasticity enables plants to respond rapidly to changing environmental conditions, such as temperature fluctuations. Understanding how plants measure temperature and integrate this information into developmental programs at the molecular level will be essential to breed thermo-tolerant crop varieties. Recent studies identified alternative splicing (AS) as a possible 'molecular thermometer', allowing plants to quickly adjust the abundance of functional transcripts to environmental perturbations. In this review, recent advances regarding the effects of temperature-responsive AS on plant development will be discussed, with emphasis on the circadian clock and flowering time control. The challenge for the near future will be to understand the molecular mechanisms by which temperature can influence AS regulation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72074 Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Giovanna
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Capovilla
authors.affiliation: Plant Research International, Bioscience, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands; Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pajoro
authors.affiliation: Plant Research International, Bioscience, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands; Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Richard G H
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Immink
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72074 Tübingen, Germany; Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, S-901 87 Umea, Sweden. Electronic address: markus.schmid@umu.se.
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schmid
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing; D057906:Circadian Clocks; D035264:Flowers / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D005809:Genes, Regulator; D063245:Plant Development; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D010940:Plant Proteins