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Sci. STKE, 20 February 2001
Vol. 2001, Issue 70, p. re1
[DOI: 10.1126/stke.2001.70.re1]

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The Ethylene Pathway: A Paradigm for Plant Hormone Signaling and Interaction

Jose 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.

The gas ethylene functions as a hormone in plants. In this review the ethylene biosynthesis and signaling pathway in the reference plant Arabidopsis thaliana are described. The questions of how the ethylene gas is produced and sensed by the receptor protein, and how the different pathway components function to transduce the signal to the nucleus, will be addressed. We also discuss what is known about the regulation of these processes by other growth regulators and how they contribute to the generation of complex ethylene-mediated responses.

Citation:
J. M. Alonso , J. R. Ecker , The Ethylene Pathway: A Paradigm for Plant Hormone Signaling and Interaction. Science's STKE (2001), http://stke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/OC_sigtrans;2001/70/re1.

© 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).

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