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Nature Cell Biology 10, 509 - 511 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ncb0508-509

Coming closer to a stoma ion channel

Laura Serna1

  1. Laura Serna is in the Facultad de Ciencias del Medio Ambiente, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, E-45071 Toledo, Spain.
    e-mail: laura.serna@uclm.es


Plant stomata, which consist of paired guard cells placed on the surface of leaves, control gas exchange with the atmosphere. Anion transport by unidentified guard-cell channels closes the stomatal pore and the first component for this channel function has now been found.

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