Nitric oxide:A potential key point of the signaling network leading to plant secondary metabolite biosynthesis

作     者：Xu Maojun(Department of Biotechnology, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310035, China) 

作者机构：Department of Biotechnology Zhejiang Gongshang University Hangzhou 310035 China 

出 版 物：《Progress in Natural Science:Materials International》 (自然科学进展·国际材料(英文))

年 卷 期：2007年第17卷第12期

页      面：1397-1404页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 071001[理学-植物学] 07[理学] 

基　　金：Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No .30572331) the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (GrantNo .302785) the Key Scientific Project of Zhejiang High Education Commission 

主　　题：plant secondary metabolites biosynthesis signaling network nitric oxide salicylic acid jasmonic acid reactive oxygen species. 

摘      要：The endogenous signaling network of plants plays important roles in mediating the exogenous factor-induced biosynthesis of secondary metabolites. Nitric oxide (NO) has emerged as a key signaling molecule in plants recently. Numerous studies demonstrated that the main signaling molecules such as salicylic acid (SA), jasmonic acid (JA), reactive oxygen species (ROS), and NO were not only involved in regulating plant secondary metabolite biosynthesis but also interacted to form a complex signaling network by mutual inhibition and/or synergy. The recent progress in the signal network of plant secondary metabolite biosynthesis has been discussed in this paper. Furthermore, we propose a hypothetical model to show that NO might act as a potential molecular switch in the signaling network leading to plant secondary metabolite biosynthesis.