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Signaling pathways underlying nitrogen transport and metabolism in plants

  • Su Jeong Choi (School of Biological Sciences and Technology, Chonnam National University) ;
  • Zion Lee (School of Biological Sciences and Technology, Chonnam National University) ;
  • Eui Jeong (School of Biological Sciences and Technology, Chonnam National University) ;
  • Sohyun Kim (School of Biological Sciences and Technology, Chonnam National University) ;
  • Jun Sung Seo (Crop Biotechnology Institute, Green Bio Science and Technology, Seoul National University) ;
  • Taeyoung Um (Agriculture and Life Sciences Research Institute, Kangwon National University) ;
  • Jae Sung Shim (School of Biological Sciences and Technology, Chonnam National University)
  • 투고 : 2022.10.18
  • 심사 : 2023.01.19
  • 발행 : 2023.02.28
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Nitrogen (N) is an essential macronutrient required for plant growth and crop production. However, N in soil is usually insufficient for plant growth. Thus, chemical N fertilizer has been extensively used to increase crop production. Due to negative effects of N rich fertilizer on the environment, improving N usage has been a major issue in the field of plant science to achieve sustainable production of crops. For that reason, many efforts have been made to elucidate how plants regulate N uptake and utilization according to their surrounding habitat over the last 30 years. Here, we provide recent advances focusing on regulation of N uptake, allocation of N by N transporting system, and signaling pathway controlling N responses in plants.

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This work was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (Project No. 2021R1F1 A1060339), the New Breeding Technologies Development Program (Project No. PJ01654103), Chonnam National University (Project No.202233830001).

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