Plant Life without Ethylene
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2015-12
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Voesenek, Laurentius A C J
Pierik, R.
Sasidharan, Rashmi
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Abstract
We propose that the ability to synthesize ethylene was selectively lost in evolution when the ancestors of fully aquatic higher plants lost their terrestrial lifestyle. We suggest that there has been negative selection on ethylene in these submerged species because it might interfere with growth in permanently deluged environments
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ethylene, evolution, submergence, flooding, Taverne
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Voesenek, L A C J, Pierik, R & Sasidharan, R 2015, 'Plant Life without Ethylene', Trends in Plant Science, vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 783-786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2015.10.016