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1Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280, USA.
Developmental Cell
|May 20, 2025
Abstract:
The hormone auxin regulates many aspects of plant growth and development. In a recent issue of Nature, Chen et al. report that an adenylate cyclase activity of auxin receptors promotes auxin-induced transcription activation. This suggests that the second messenger cAMP functions differently in plants than in other organisms.
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