Plant Hormone: A Current Role For A Well-Known Molecule.
Researchers at the University of Maryland have found an entirely new role for a well-known plant molecular described ACC, providing the 1st clear example of ACC acting on its own as a likely plant hormone.
Just like in animals and humans, hormones in plants carry messages to trigger and signal essential processes for functionality and plant health, from generation to defence. Without these processes, yields can't reproduce and thrive to provide the food they need to support a growing global population.
Under a new publication in Nature Communications, researchers explain that ACC has a significant role in pollination and seed composition by activating proteins similar to those involves in nervous system responses in animals and humans.
These findings could not only exchange textbooks that have previously attributed plant responses to the hormone ethylene preferably of ACC but could also open the door for new research to promote plant health and crop yield.
There are various novel things about this paper. Illustrates Caren Chang, UMD. But the main impact is that it advances a new plant growth regulator or alongside, plant hormone a small handful of other communications.
It isn't a newly discovered molecule, but it has never been thought of before as a plant hormone, only as of the precursor to ethylene. Chang, a professor in Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics and affiliate professor of plant Science and Landscape Architecture supported by Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, explains that ethylene is one of the five main plant hormones and has been studied for over a century.
It is significant for many processes that are vital to plant health and crop production, including fruit ripening, stress responses to flooding, and plant disease defences, flowering, drought, germination.
In much of the study, ACC has been used in place of ethylene, identifying that it's a messenger that plants translate into ethylene. This is because ACC is simple to work within powder form and can even be sprayed on the plant, but operating with ethylene is very troublesome because it is a gas.