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Sci. STKE, 20 February 2001 REVIEWSThe Ethylene Pathway: A Paradigm for Plant Hormone Signaling and InteractionJose M. Alonso , and Joseph R. Ecker The authors are in the Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037, USA. E-mail: ecker{at}salk.edu. Abstract: To dissect the web of signals that control plant growth, it is important to understand how the individual components of the pathway are modulated. Ethylene is a plant hormone involved in a large number of developmental processes. Biochemical and genetic approaches have provided a detailed view of the biosynthetic and signal transduction pathways of this hormone in the reference plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The effects of several hormones and of developmental changes on the regulation of the key enzymes of ethylene biosynthesis, ACC synthase and ACC oxidase, serve as a clear example of interaction between signals in the generation of complex responses. We now have a picture of how ethylene is sensed by the ethylene receptors and how the signal is further transduced to the nucleus. Although some of the ethylene receptors show a tissue-specific pattern of expression, little is known about the regulation of the components of the ethylene transduction cascade by other hormones or developmental factors. Once the ethylene signal reaches the nucleus, it activates a transcriptional cascade that results in changes in the expression of a number of genes. We describe some of the results that suggest an interaction at the transcriptional level between ethylene, other hormones, and stress signals. Citation: © 2001 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Citation: J. M. Alonso, J. R. Ecker, The Ethylene Pathway: A Paradigm for Plant Hormone Signaling and Interaction. Sci. STKE 2001, re1 (2001). The editors suggest the following Related Resources on Science sites:In Science Signaling
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