Researchers at Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology have found a missing link for the signaling pathway for plant steroid hormones (brassinosteroids). The discovery will lead to genetic engineering of greater yield in crops and a key to understand major human diseases such as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's. Brassinosteroids regulate many aspects of growth and development in plants and is similar to animal steroids, but function differently at the cellular level. The study is published in the advanced on-line issue of Nature Cell Biology.
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