Regulation of plant immune responses involves competition between antagonistic but unique peptides for a broadly accessible receptor.
A waterproofing layer in plant roots is surveyed and maintained by peptide hormones and their receptors.
Fluorescence-Brillouin imaging reveals that plants regulate the mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix in response to light.
The molecular mechanisms underlying the plant response to the steroid hormone, brassinosteroid, are elucidated in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Brassinosteroids bind plasma membrane leucine-rich repeat-receptor serine/threonine kinases to ultimately regulate activity of a plant-specific family of transcription factors.
Two plant proteins thought to trigger protective pathways upon pathogen attack actually form a regulatory system that keeps defense proteins available for rapid deployment.