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Signal Transduction in Plants (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
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Signal Transduction in Plants (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
Series: Molecular and Cell Biology Updates
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Increasing interest has been emerging in the last decade in the
field of signal recognition and transduction. This is particularly
true for animal systems where an impressive amount of literature is
appearing and where many important pathways have been clarified at
a molecular level. In the elucidation of the functions of single
components of a given pathway, gene cloning has played a major role
and opened the field to the genetic engineering of these complex
systems. At variance with this situation, plant systems are less
well elucidated, even if in recent years exciting research of
developments have been initiated especially with the view toward
the most promising role plants in biotechnology. Recent studies
have elucidated some of the events involved in the perception of
the plant hormone signals and some steps concerning its
transduction. Only for three of the five hormones in plants, namely
auxin, ethylene and cytokinins, have specific receptors been
isolated. The use of classical molecular approaches, together with
the more recently isolated mutants, have produced crucial
information on receptors and shed light on possible transduction
pathways. As in the case of red light, more than one pathway can be
triggered by one specific signal. Many systems involved in animal
signaling are now shown to be present also in plants, and in view
of the fast progress in this area, it will be possible in the near
future to fully describe the content of the "black boxes" in the
reaction chain specifically triggered by a signal.
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