Volume 26, No 7, Jul 2016

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 26 Issue 7, July 2016: 755-756

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Peptide signaling in plants: finding partners is the key

Feng Yu¹ and Sheng Luan²

¹Hunan Province Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics and Developmental Regulation, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China
²Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Correspondence: Sheng Luan, Fax: 1-510-642-4995(sluan@berkeley.edu)

Root meristem growth factors (RGFs), a family of “orphan” peptides, control root growth by altering the expression and gradient of transcription factors PLETHORAS (PLTs) that maintain stem cell niche. However, the receptors for RGFs remain unknown until recently when three groups independently reported the identification of a group of receptor-like kinases (RLKs) as cell surface receptors for RGFs.

10.1038/cr.2016.73

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