Thursday, 14 February 2013

Plants cut the mustard for basic discoveries in metabolism

La Jolla CA (SPX) Feb 14, 2013



You might think you have nothing in common with mustard except hotdogs. Yet based on research in a plant from the mustard family, Salk scientists have discovered a possible explanation for how organisms, including humans, directly regulate chemical reactions that quickly adjust the growth of organs. These findings overturn conventional views of how different body parts coordinate their growth, ...