A kinase cascade drives fast calcium-induced osmotic stress response in plants.

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Faculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China; Institute of Emerging Agricultural Technology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China; Key Laboratory of Quantitative Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen I

Published: May 2025


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The phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) triggers the activation of Snf1-related protein kinase 2s (SnRK2s) for adaptation to abiotic stress conditions. However, osmotic stress-induced ABA accumulation is slow while Ca signals occur immediately. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Li et al. show that a subset of calcium-dependent kinases decode Ca signals to directly control SnRK2 activation and thus early osmotic stress regulation in plants.

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