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The ETHYLUTION project investigates the role of the plant hormone ethylene in the adaptation of early land plants to terrestrial environments. It aims to uncover the biosynthesis pathways of ethylene and its precursor, ACC, using model organisms.
When ancestral plants colonized the land 450 million years ago, they needed to adapt to harsh environmental conditions when giving up their aquatic lifestyle. I hypothesize that during this water-to-land transition, the volatile plant hormone ethylene became an important growth regulator to face terrestrial stressors.
In fact, modern-day crops use ethylene to regulate stress responses, and perhaps ethylene served this role in pioneering land plants to cope with the harsh conditions coinciding wi…
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
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