Plant biologists FRET over stress

Won-Gyu Choi; Simon Gilroy

doi:10.7554/eLife.02763

Plant biologists FRET over stress

Elife. 2014 Apr 15:3:e02763. doi: 10.7554/eLife.02763.

Authors

Won-Gyu Choi¹, Simon Gilroy

Affiliation

¹ Won-Gyu Choi is in the Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States.

Abstract

Two independent research labs have developed fluorescent biosensors to report the levels of the stress hormone, abscisic acid, within cells in living plants in real-time.

Keywords: FRET-based reporter; abscisic acid; biosensors; plant hormone.

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MeSH terms

Abscisic Acid / analysis*
Animals
Arabidopsis / chemistry*
Arabidopsis / physiology*
Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer*
Optical Imaging / methods*
Plant Growth Regulators / analysis*
Plant Roots / chemistry*
Stress, Physiological*

Substances

Plant Growth Regulators
Abscisic Acid