Volume 34, No 11, Nov 2024

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

Volume 34 Issue 11, November 2024: 761-762

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Feeling the danger: local wound signaling in plants

Lukas Hoermayer^1,* , Jiří Friml^2,*

¹Department of Plant Molecular Biology (DMBV), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
²Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Klosterneuburg, Austria
Correspondence: Lukas Hoermayer(lukas.hoermayer@unil.ch)Jiří Friml(jiri.friml@ist.ac.at)

Local wound signaling in plants informs the surrounding tissues about an injury and initiates the regeneration process. In a recent paper published in Cell, Yang and colleagues show the involvement of a single Pep family member from tomato in wound signaling and how exogenous application of this regeneration factor enhances transformation efficiency in crops.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-024-01035-x

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