Plant signalling pathways: a comparative evolutionary overview.Comments Comment on: Curr Biol. 2011 May 10;21(9):R346-55; PMID: 21549957, Comment on: Curr Biol. 2011 May 10;21(9):R320-30; PMID: 21549954

摘要

It is an exciting time in the world of plant signal transduction research. Not only has the last few years seen major advances in our understanding of previously refractory topics, such as hormone receptors, but also the increased and indeed increasing availability of sequenced plant genomes provides an unprecedented opportunity to start asking questions about the evolution of signalling pathways. Recognizing that it would be timely to assess progress in these areas, in this issue of Current Biology we have drawn together a series of articles from leading figures in the field designed both to review recent advances and to begin to ask questions about the origin of signalling pathways in plants and their relationship to stimulusresponse coupling in other organisms.