Highly stable amyloid protein aggregates may help plant seeds last longer
Thursday, July 23, 2020 - 15:11
in Biology & Nature
Highly stable polymeric "amyloid" proteins, best known for their role in Alzheimer's disease, have been mostly studied in animals. But a new study on the garden pea publishing July 23, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, by Anton Nizhnikov of All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology (ARRIAM) and colleagues, shows that they also occur in plants, and they may be an important adaptation for prolonging seed viability.