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Salt stress-induced Ca2+ waves are associated with rapid, long-distance root-to-shoot signaling in plants.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Apr 2014
Choi Won-Gyu, Toyota Masatsugu, Kim Su-Hwa, Hilleary Richard, Gilroy Simon
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Their sessile lifestyle means that plants have to be exquisitely sensitive to their environment, integrating many signals to appropriate developmental and physiological responses. Stimuli ranging from wounding and pathogen attack to the distribution of water and nutrients in the soil are frequently presented in a localized manner but responses are often elicited throughout the plant. Such systemic signaling is...
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