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IRON MAN is a jack of all trades

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The functions of a small family of non-secreted peptides, originally identified as critical communicators of the plant’s iron status, have expanded. The involvement of these effectors in disparate signalling cascades underlines the pivotal role peptides have in responses to the environment.

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Fig. 1: Function of IMA peptides in Arabidopsis and in L. japonicus.

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    Isabel Cristina Vélez-Bermúdez & Wolfgang Schmidt

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Vélez-Bermúdez, I.C., Schmidt, W. IRON MAN is a jack of all trades. Nat. Plants (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01688-x

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