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Plant biology

Jasmonate perception machines

Nature volume 448, pages 659–660 (2007)Cite this article

How do plant cells respond so vigorously to organisms that damage their cells? Following on from progress made in understanding hormonal control of growth and development comes news of how a plant's security system operates.

The breaking and entering of plant cells sets off alarms by stimulating the formation of jasmonic acid and its jasmonate derivatives. Papers by Thines et al.1 and Chini et al.2, published on pages 661 and 666 of this issue, reveal beautifully dynamic mechanisms of jasmonate perception and downstream molecular signalling.

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Figure 1: Five steps in jasmonate signalling1,2.
Figure 2: Primary regulatory cycles in jasmonate signalling.

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  1. Edward E. Farmer is in the Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. edward.farmer@unil.ch,

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