A certain plant hormone, jasmine acid, plays an important role in many stress responses, including the response to injury, cold stress, and heat. Could it also play a role in heat-induced plant growth?
Professor Yves de Smet of the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology and his team set out to answer this question.
“Our starting point was previously published data on upregulated proteins in wheat germ exposed to high temperatures. To investigate whether jasmonite signals play a role in growth in response to warmer temperatures, we used both. Arabidopsis Like wheat as a model crop,” said doctoral student Tingting Zhou, lead author of the study.
Jasmonates are a group of plant hormones that play a regulatory role in the immune system and many other processes in plants, including growth, aging, and fertility. Jasmine acid is its main representative.
Arabidopsis thaliana Or garden lettuce is a small flowering plant related to cabbage. It is one of the model organisms for studying genetics and biology at the molecular level of plants and therefore is widely used in research.
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