Crowded Nuclei Proteins also Influence Plants' Response to Environmental Stress (IMAGE)

University of Tokyo

Crowded Nuclei Proteins also Influence Plants' Response to Environmental Stress

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Researchers at the University of Tokyo have identified how the architecture of the cell nucleus can change gene activity in plants. Plants genetically modified to inhibit two of the four genes responsible for the nuclear lamina (crwn1/4 and crwn2/3) can survive in low copper conditions (left), but are significantly smaller and weaker in high copper conditions (right) compared to healthy plants (WT).

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Image by Yuki Sakamoto, CC BY, first published in <em>Nature Communications</em>.

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