New role for protein family could provide path to how crop traits are modified

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - 17:00 in Biology & Nature

Pioneering new research from a team of Indiana University Bloomington biologists has shown for the first time that a protein which has been long known to be critical for the initiation of protein synthesis in all organisms can also play a role in the regulation of gene expression in some bacteria, and probably land plants as well.

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