How very-long-chain fatty acids could signal stressful conditions in plants?

Although encountered in minor amounts in plant cells, very-long-chain fatty acids exert crucial functions in developmental processes. When their levels is perturbed by means of genetic approaches, marked phenotypic consequences that range from severe growth retardation to embryo lethality was indeed...

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Main Authors: Antoine de Bigault du Granrut, Jean-Luc Cacas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.01490/full