FERONIA Receptor Kinase Controls Seed Size in Arabidopsis thaliana

摘要

Dear Editor, Plants have evolved elaborate mechanisms by which cell elongation regulation is coupled to the environmental signals.The plasma membrane receptor kinase FERONIA (FER) has emerged as an important regulatory node in controlling cell elongation and hormone crosstalk (Guo et al.,2009;Deslauriers and Larsen,2010;Duan et al.,2010;Yu et al.,2012).Initially reported to inhibit pollen tube elongation during fertilization (Escobar-Restrepo et al.,2007),FER has been since found to promote cell elongation in leaves and root hairs (Guo et al.,2009;Duan et al.,2010).