General translational repression is a critical process in reducing energy consumption under hypoxia. A team led by Dr. Ming-Che Shih at Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center unveiled that in Arabidopsis under submergence, entrapped ethylene activated downstream pathways to modulate the global translational repression and regulate transcript levels and translation efficiency of specific mRNAs that are required for survival under hypoxia. This study shed new light on how plant cells sense and adapt to flooding stress. The article was published in Science Advances in June 2022.

Article link: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.abm7863