Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Complementary peptides represent a credible alternative to agrochemicals by activating translation of targeted proteins

  • Mélanie Ormancey,
  • Bruno Guillotin,
  • Rémy Merret,
  • Laurent Camborde,
  • Carine Duboé,
  • Bertrand Fabre,
  • Cécile Pouzet,
  • Francis Impens,
  • Delphi Van Haver,
  • Marie-Christine Carpentier,
  • Hélène San Clemente,
  • Marielle Aguilar,
  • Dominique Lauressergues,
  • Lars B. Scharff,
  • Carole Pichereaux,
  • Odile Burlet-Schiltz,
  • Cécile Bousquet-Antonelli,
  • Kris Gevaert,
  • Patrice Thuleau,
  • Serge Plaza,
  • Jean-Philippe Combier

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35951-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Feeding an increasing world population in the context of climate change is one of the grand challenges faced by our generation. Here, the authors show that external application of synthetic complementary peptides can increase the abundance of target proteins to modulate plant growth or stress resistance.