Wounded plants: How they coordinate their healing
Monday, June 15, 2020 - 14:00
in Health & Medicine
When we cut our fingers, blood rushes out of the wound to close it. However, the vegetable we just wanted to slice and dice, would have reacted completely differently to this injury. Scientists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) investigated how plant cells heal wounds. In their results, published in PNAS on June 15, the researchers discovered that the hormone auxin and pressure changes are crucial to regeneration.