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ReviewPlants (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Function of WAKs in Regulating Cell Wall Development and Responses to Abiotic Stress.

Xiaocui Yao, John Humphries, Kim L Johnson, Jinhui Chen, Yingxuan Ma

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Review in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Computational Predictions and Evolutionary Analysis ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  5. ZmWAK3 overexpression enhances cold tolerance via coordinated improvement of antioxidant defense and photosynthesis.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2026
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  6. TheGenes · 2026
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  9. FScientific reports · 2025
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  10. ZmWAK3-mediated cell wall remodeling and stomatal dynamics modulate drought tolerance in maize seedlings.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2025
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  11. Roles of maizeFrontiers in plant science · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Xiaocui YaoState Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Key Laboratory of Forest Genetics & Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, International Joint Laboratory on Forest Genetics and Germplasm Innovation, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.
John HumphriesLa Trobe Institute for Sustainable Agriculture & Food, Department of Animal, Plant and Soil Science, AgriBio Building, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC 3086, Australia.
Kim L JohnsonLa Trobe Institute for Sustainable Agriculture & Food, Department of Animal, Plant and Soil Science, AgriBio Building, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC 3086, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6917-7742
Jinhui ChenState Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Key Laboratory of Forest Genetics & Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, International Joint Laboratory on Forest Genetics and Germplasm Innovation, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.
Yingxuan MaState Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Key Laboratory of Forest Genetics & Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, International Joint Laboratory on Forest Genetics and Germplasm Innovation, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0625-4242

Funding

Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province BK20230391
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Receptor-like kinases (RLKs) are instrumental in regulating plant cell surface sensing and vascular tissue differentiation. Wall-associated kinases (WAKs) are a unique group of RLKs that have been identified as key cell wall integrity (CWI) sensors. WAK signaling is suggested to be activated during growth in response to cell expansion or when the cell wall is damaged, for example, during pathogen attack. WAKs are proposed to interact with pectins or pectin fragments that are enriched in primary walls. Secondary walls have low levels of pectins, yet recent studies have shown important functions of WAKs during secondary wall development. Several

Indexed as

cell wall integrity (CWI)oligogalacturonidespectinprimary cell wall (PCW)secondary cell wall (SCW)wall-associated kinase (WAK)

Identifiers

PMID39942905
PMCPMC11820136

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