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A fundamental question of biology is how a cell senses its environment and responds to it. This process of perceiving and responding is critical to a unicellular organism for its survival in variable conditions. It is equally critical to a multicellular organism for its adaptation, as well as its coordinated development. In plants, some growth regulators have long been shown to act as signals to cany out this process. However, until recently little was known about how a plant cell perceives these signals and how the signals are transduced to cellular responses.
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Hua, J., Sakai, H., Meyerowitz, E.M. (1997). The Ethylene Receptor Gene Family in Arabidopsis . In: Kanellis, A.K., Chang, C., Kende, H., Grierson, D. (eds) Biology and Biotechnology of the Plant Hormone Ethylene. NATO ASI Series, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5546-5_10
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