Herbivory is a key threat to seedlings, driving plant community composition and the evolution of seedling defences. In Hawaii, seedling herbivores are not part of the native fauna, but have recently become prevalent due...
Tag - non-photochemical quenching
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Role of AOX1A in optimizing photosynthesis
Vishwakarma et al. treat wild-type and aox1a knock-out mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana with antimycin A and find that restriction of the cytochrome c oxidase (COX) pathway in the background of an impaired AOX pathway...
Cytokinins can trigger hypersensitive-like responses
Activating the gene ipt to produce high levels of cytokinins in tobacco is sufficient to trigger fast cell death without intervening chlorosis.
