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ReviewJournal of experimental botany2018

Auxin signaling: a big question to be addressed by small molecules.

Qian Ma, Peter Grones, Stéphanie Robert

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Review in Journal of experimental botany, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Evolutionary adaptations to the hormonal regulation of vascular tissue development.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  16. International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  18. Fourteen Stations of Auxin.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Qian MaUmeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden.
Peter GronesUmeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden.
Stéphanie Robert

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Providing a mechanistic understanding of the crucial roles of the phytohormone auxin has been an important and coherent aspect of plant biology research. Since its discovery more than a century ago, prominent advances have been made in the understanding of auxin action, ranging from metabolism and transport to cellular and transcriptional responses. However, there is a long road ahead before a thorough understanding of its complex effects is achieved, because a lot of key information is still missing. The availability of an increasing number of technically advanced scientific tools has boosted the basic discoveries in auxin biology. A plethora of bioactive small molecules, consisting of the synthetic auxin-like herbicides and the more specific auxin-related compounds, developed as a result of the exploration of chemical space by chemical biology, have made the tool box for auxin research more comprehensive. This review mainly focuses on the compounds targeting the auxin co-receptor complex, demonstrates the various ways to use them, and shows clear examples of important basic knowledge obtained by their usage. Application of these precise chemical tools, together with an increasing amount of structural information for the major components in auxin action, will certainly aid in strengthening our insights into the complexity and diversity of auxin response.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionIndoleacetic AcidsPlant Growth RegulatorsPlant ProteinsPlantsReceptors, Cell Surfaceauxin receptor, plantIndoleacetic AcidsPlant Growth RegulatorsPlant ProteinsReceptors, Cell SurfaceAuxinauxin responseauxin signalingchemical biologychemical geneticsphytohormonessmall molecules

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PMID29237069
PMCPMC5853230

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