Different evolutionary paths lead plants and animals to the same crossroads

Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 16:50 in Biology & Nature

In analysing the molecular sensor for the plant growth hormone brassinolide, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies discovered that although plants took an evolutionary path different from their animal cousins, they arrived at similar solutions to a common problem: How to reliably receive and process incoming signals...

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