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. 2024 Feb 23;75(14):4314–4331. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erae073

Table 1.

Transcripts whose function is environmentally controlled via their UTRs

Transcripta Regulatory mechanism Environmental stimulus Developmental/physiological output Reference
AKR2 APA Salinity Salt tolerance Yu et al. (2019)
AT3G47610 APA Salinity Salt tolerance Yu et al. (2019)
ATHB1 uORF Light Leaf development Ribone et al. (2017)
CO m6A methylation Light Flowering Wang et al. (2022)
COOLAIR APA Temperature Flowering Csorba et al. (2014)
CORG1 RNA structure Temperature Root growth Yang et al. (2022)
CRY2 m6A methylation Light Hypocotyl elongation; flowering Wang et al. (2022)
DGAT1 m6A methylation Cold Growth S. Wang et al. (2023)
FLC m6A methylation Light Flowering Wang et al. (2022)
FLM AS Temperature Flowering Posé et al. (2013); Sureshkumar et al. (2016)
HSFB1 uORF Temperature Heat shock response Zhu et al. (2012)
LHY AS Temperature Circadian clock James et al. (2018a)
NIP5:1 uORF Boron Boron tolerance Tanaka et al. (2016)
OsPHO1.2 Interaction with cis-NATPHO1.2; RNA structure Phosphate Phosphate homeostasis Reis et al. (2021)
PHO2 Interaction with miR399 Phosphate; temperature Phosphate acquisition; flowering Bari et al. (2006); Chiou et al. (2006); Kim et al. (2011)
PIF3 AS, uORF Light Hypocotyl elongation Dong et al. (2020).
PIF4 m6A methylation Light Hypocotyl elongation; flowering Wang et al. (2022)
PIF7 RNA structure Temperature Elongation growth; stomata formation Chung et al. (2023)
PORA Interaction with PNT1 and phytochrome Light Chlorophyll biosynthesis Paik et al. (2012)
PSY AS Light; salinity Carotenoid biosynthesis Álvarez et al. (2016)
SaHKT1 APA Salinity Salt tolerance T. Wang et al. (2023)
SOC1 Interaction with BRN1/BRN2 Temperature Flowering Kim et al. (2013)
SPL3 Interaction with miR156/157 Light; temperature Flowering Gandikota et al. (2007); Kim et al. (2012); Xie et al. (2017)
ZIF2 AS, RNA structure Zinc Zinc tolerance Remy et al. (2014)

This table only contains transcripts for which the functional relevance of UTR-mediated regulation in response to specific environmental signals has been shown.

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The prefix Os refers to Oryza sativa, the prefix Sa refers to Spartina alterniflora; all other transcripts stem from Arabidopsis thaliana.