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FERONIA: A Central Hub Integrating Environmental Signaling and the Growth-Defense Trade-Off in Plants.
Plant, Cell & Environment · · Review
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FERONIA (FER) in Arabidopsis thaliana integrates environmental inputs through RALF/ligand binding and intracellular phosphorylation, coordinating growth-defense decisions as a central signaling hub.
- Why it matters: Plants need to balance growth with defense under changing conditions, but the molecular wiring linking external cues to that trade-off is not fully consolidated.
- What they did: This review systematically summarizes how FER perceives and transduces signals, emphasizing mechanistic findings from Arabidopsis thaliana and linking receptor activation to downstream responses.
- The result: The synthesis supports FER as a hub for multiple stresses—drought, salinity, and pathogen attacks—and highlights how this framework may inform understanding of FER homologs in crops.
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