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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana
SUBMITTER: Susanne Kneitz
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-41054 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Current biology : CB 20121206 1
Stomata are pores on the leaf surface, bounded by two guard cells, which control the uptake of CO(2) for photosynthesis and the concomitant loss of water vapor. In 1898, Francis Darwin showed that stomata close in response to reduced atmospheric relative humidity (rh); however, our understanding of the signaling pathway responsible for coupling changes in rh to alterations in stomatal aperture is fragmentary. The results presented here highlight the primacy of abscisic acid (ABA) in the stomatal ...[more]