Decoy for cytokinin Hormone signalling is regulated in multiple ways. Now researchers in Molecular Plant show a new way: using a decoy to regulate cytokinin signalling. The use of a decoy in the form of non-functioning receptors is known strategy in mammalian cells. But in plants this was up till now unknown. The researchers stumbledContinue reading “Decoy for cytokinin”
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Pressurised division
Pressurised division How a cell divides influences how a plant looks. A new study in Developmental Cell shows how the orientation of microtubules influences were the orientation of the dividing wall in the dividing cell. Due to their cell wall plant cells are connected to each other. In this way the orientation of a cellContinue reading “Pressurised division”
Loaded defence
Loaded defence Using an electric current to prevent infections. It sounds strange, but that it works show researchers from England in Scientific Reports. There is not much that works against infections of Phytophthora palmivora, an oomycete pathogen. But so discovered the researchers, when exposed to an electric field the oomycete swim towards the positive electrodeContinue reading “Loaded defence”
Counting stomata
Counting stomata Stomata close after they receive a calcium current. How quickly, that is dependent on the trigger of this current. But how the stomata distinguishes those calcium signals was up till now unknown. A recently in Current Biology published study shows how stomata differentiate between the different signals. By using a light activated calciumContinue reading “Counting stomata”
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