Table 1.

Dynamic features of plant APA genes related to abiotic stress responses

Abiotic stress
Stress	General trend of 3’UTR	Poly(A) site usage	Gene		Expression level	Reference
Cd	/	proximal	AT5G54370(long-time stress); OsPrx1, OsRPA1a, OsEXO1		↑	(Cao et al. 2019; Ye et al. 2019b; Zhou et al. 2019)
			AtBGLU23, AtTUB2, AtCAP1, AtPGY1, AtCSLE 1, AtRH19		/
		distal	AtBT4, AtAPI2, AtHP60, AtCYP81F 4, AtARP1, AtNOG1- 1, AT5G54370 (short-time stress), AtLOS1, AtASK2, OsPOD, CPSF30		/
High salt	lengthening	distal	AT4G23050, AT5G62470, Thhalv10011676m, Thhalv10014879m		↑	(Ma et al. 2022; Wang et al. 2022)
Hypoxia	/	non-3’ UTR	RBOHD, TPS8, GID1A, AT3G46530, AT3G23030, AT5G46780		↑	(Cui et al. 2015; de Lorenzo et al. 2017; Ye et al. 2019b)
		distal	NADP-ME2, OsAPX1, OsAPX2		↑
			DCA1, OsRZFP34		↓
Heat	lengthening	proximal	OsHSP74.8, OsHSP40, HSP101,		↑	(Wilkins et al. 2016; Ye et al. 2019b; Wu et al. 2020)
		distal	OsHSP82A, OsHsfB2c		↑
			OsCam1-1, LEA, OsPYL, RCAR3, OsSAPK5, OsJAZ8		↓
	poly(A) tail dynamic: tail lengthen		HSP32, HSP21, HSP70, HSP70-3, HSP40, HSP101, HSP17.6II, HSP17.6C, AT1G59860, AT4G12400, AT3G09350, AT4G36040		↑
Cold	/		proximal	AT1G11280, AT3G13110	↑	(Zhang et al. 2022)
			distal	AT5G53420	↑