Plant Life without Ethylene

L.A.C.J. Voesenek; R. Pierik; R. Sasidharan

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2015.10.016

Plant Life without Ethylene

L.A.C.J. Voesenek, R. Pierik, R. Sasidharan

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Abstract

We propose that the ability to synthesize ethylene was selectively lost in evolution when the ancestors of fully aquatic higher plants lost their terrestrial lifestyle. We suggest that there has been negative selection on ethylene in these submerged species because it might interfere with growth in permanently deluged environments

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	783-786
Number of pages	4
Journal	Trends in Plant Science
Volume	20
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2015.10.016
Publication status	Published - Dec 2015

Keywords

ethylene
evolution
submergence
flooding

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Plant Life without Ethylene

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