The plant energy management machinery: an essential hub for stress resilience and developmental dynamics with great potential for crop improvement. Wahl, V., Hanson, J., & Menand, B. Journal of Experimental Botany, 77(5):1357–1361, March, 2026. ![The plant energy management machinery: an essential hub for stress resilience and developmental dynamics with great potential for crop improvement [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex Plants coordinate resource uptake, developmental pace, and morphological efficiency. This ensures that energy use is balanced across time and tissues, enabling resilience and stable growth under fluctuating environmental conditions. The plant energy management machinery encompasses the interconnected signalling and metabolic networks that coordinate energy acquisition, storage, mobilization, and utilization to support growth, development, and environmental adaptation. In contrast to animals, where dedicated organs such as fat bodies in Drosophila and the liver in mammals, play crucial roles in energy metabolism and sensing (Chatterjee and Perrimon, 2021), plants exhibit a more integrative concept of nutrient and energy regulation. Here, the term ‘nutrients’ extends beyond simple energy carriers to include a broad spectrum of organic and inorganic compounds, such as sugars, amino acids, nitrate, phosphate, and lipids, that function both as metabolic substrates and as signalling molecules, influencing gene expression, enzyme activity, developmental transitions, and growth.
@article{wahl_plant_2026,
title = {The plant energy management machinery: an essential hub for stress resilience and developmental dynamics with great potential for crop improvement},
volume = {77},
issn = {0022-0957},
shorttitle = {The plant energy management machinery},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erag032},
doi = {10.1093/jxb/erag032},
abstract = {Plants coordinate resource uptake, developmental pace, and morphological efficiency. This ensures that energy use is balanced across time and tissues, enabling resilience and stable growth under fluctuating environmental conditions. The plant energy management machinery encompasses the interconnected signalling and metabolic networks that coordinate energy acquisition, storage, mobilization, and utilization to support growth, development, and environmental adaptation. In contrast to animals, where dedicated organs such as fat bodies in Drosophila and the liver in mammals, play crucial roles in energy metabolism and sensing (Chatterjee and Perrimon, 2021), plants exhibit a more integrative concept of nutrient and energy regulation. Here, the term ‘nutrients’ extends beyond simple energy carriers to include a broad spectrum of organic and inorganic compounds, such as sugars, amino acids, nitrate, phosphate, and lipids, that function both as metabolic substrates and as signalling molecules, influencing gene expression, enzyme activity, developmental transitions, and growth.},
number = {5},
urldate = {2026-03-10},
journal = {Journal of Experimental Botany},
author = {Wahl, Vanessa and Hanson, Johannes and Menand, Benoît},
month = mar,
year = {2026},
pages = {1357--1361},
}
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