Researchers from Tübingen resolve how a plant steroid
hormone makes plants grow
If one wants to better understand how plants grow, one must
analyse the chemistry of life in its molecular detail. Michael Hothorn from the
Friedrich-Miescher-Laboratory of the Max Planck Society in Tübingen and his
team are doing just that. Their latest work now reveals that a plant membrane
receptor requires a helper protein to sense a growth-promoting steroid hormone
and to transduce this signal across the cell membrane.