Plants sense extracellular cues through several hundred cell surface receptors. The most rapidly evolving group of receptors is the leucine-rich repeat receptor-like proteins (RLPs), which transduce immune signals as a bipartite receptor complex with the adapter SOBIR1. In recent years many new examples of immunogenic patterns detected by specific RLPs ...
Salt lakes are some of the world’s most extraordinary ecosystems, but nearly all of them - from the Great Salt Lake to the Aral Sea - are drying up, a harbinger of dust storms, rising sea levels, and worsening human health. Caroline Tracey’s book Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History, a ...
