Plants, like all organisms don’t like an excess of salt. One of its ways to deal with salt stress is to strengthen their cell walls. FER, a receptor in the cell membrane is one of the key proteins in regulating this. Now a group of Chinese researchers show that key to this is the small molecule phosphatidic acid.
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Flexible cell walls
A new study shows that cell wall flexibility determines how plant cells react to damaged neighbours.
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