Plants on steroids: Key missing link discovered
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 15:49
in Biology & Nature
Palo Alto, CA -- Researchers at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology have discovered a key missing link in the so-called signaling pathway for plant steroid hormones (brassinosteroids). Many important signaling pathways are relays of molecules that start at the cell surface and cascade to the nucleus to regulate genes.