State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research (Beijing), Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Plant Signal Behav. 2011 Jul;6(7):927-9. doi: 10.4161/psb.6.7.15377.
Phosphorus is one of the most essential and limiting macronutrients for plants. Phosphate (Pi) deficiency could affect crop productivity seriously in agriculture. How to cope with this problem? Unveiling the molecular mechanism behind the Pi starvation responses of plants will be helpful to solve this issue. Rice is one of the most important crops, which feeds over one-third of the people in the world. In this review, we summarize the recent progress on Pi starvation signaling in rice with the intention to provide a further insight into the molecular mechanism of Pi starvation responses in rice and to give a new research direction to design transgenic plants with high Pi efficiency.
磷是植物最重要和最有限的大量营养素之一。磷酸盐（Pi）缺乏会严重影响农业中的作物生产力。如何应对这个问题？揭示植物对 Pi 饥饿反应的分子机制将有助于解决这个问题。水稻是最重要的作物之一，养活了世界上三分之一以上的人口。在这篇综述中，我们总结了水稻 Pi 饥饿信号转导的最新进展，旨在深入了解水稻 Pi 饥饿反应的分子机制，并为设计具有高 Pi 效率的转基因植物提供新的研究方向。
