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This Perspective discusses six regulatory options following the proposition of the European Commission to amend European Union’s legislation for plants obtained with new genomic techniques.
This Perspective presents an historical overview and recent advances on adenylate cyclases (ACs) and cAMP signalling in plants, including an exploration of the active AC functions moonlighting within multifunctional protein complexes.
The authors hypothesize that effector-triggered immunity in plants is a quarantining mechanism that prevents disease by inducing localized acquired resistance, a strong defence response that occurs around the cells containing the pathogen.
The authors revisit the array of phenotypes linked to FERONIA in an attempt to identify a unifying feature behind its many biological and biochemical functions. They propose that the contribution of FERONIA to monitoring turgor-dependent cell wall tension may explain its pleiotropy.
