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Annals of Botany 93: 783-784, 2004
© 2004 Annals of Botany Company

Scheel D. and Wasternack C.(eds) Plant Signal Transduction.

P. M. GRESSHOFF

Plant Signal Transduction.
Scheel D, Wasternack C, eds. 2002.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
£72·50 (hardback), £35 (softback). 346 pp.

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The recent whole-scale sequencing of several organisms has revealed two surprising facts to me. Firstly, I as a human with considerable pride in the genetic complexity controlling my differentiation, my immune response, my memory and my behaviour, really do not have so many more genes compared to plants. Secondly, when surveying the genomes of mammals, flies and worms, I found about 50 receptor kinase genes per genome, whereas plants possess about 400. What are all the receptors doing in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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