What is it about?
When plants are submerged, they use the entrapment of the gaseous hormone ethylene to induce growth responses that prevent them from running out of oxygen. Interestingly, recent work shows that plants can also use ethylene to anticipate and survive when oxygen levels do become limited. Here we describe the ethylene-controlled metabolic processes that help plants to overcome flooding-induced oxygen deprivation.
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Why is it important?
Understanding signaling cascades that confer flooding tolerance in plants is crucial develop crops that can sustain a changing climate
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This page is a summary of: The role of ethylene in metabolic acclimations to low oxygen, New Phytologist, December 2019, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/nph.16378.
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