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Chloroplast calcium signalling quenches a thirst

Nature Plants volume 5, pages 559–560 (2019)Cite this article

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Ion channels and transporters can integrate environmental cues in the cell. In addition to governing calcium homeostasis, a chloroplast envelope-localized calcium channel is now characterized to implicate chloroplast calcium signalling in drought tolerance.

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Fig. 1: Chloroplast calcium signals downstream of cMCU alter stomatal closure and shape the drought response.

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  1. Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Simon Stael

  2. VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium

    Simon Stael

  3. Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Simon Stael

  4. VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, Ghent, Belgium

    Simon Stael

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Stael, S. Chloroplast calcium signalling quenches a thirst. Nat. Plants 5, 559–560 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-019-0435-7

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