Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

Thole collaborates with Brian Downes, Ph.D., , using Arabidopsis to study the role of the Membrane ... Abscisic acid controls root elongation through the activities of auxin and ethylene. G3 (2014) ...

For the most part, the major signaling components downstream of these receptors are known, identified almost exclusively through Arabidopsis thaliana genetics. Although the details of the precise ...

While auxin was already known to help control this process, ethylene's involvement was a new discovery. In experiments with thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)—a model plant often used in ...