How did Yejin Shim (@yeahgene.bsky.social) engineer osmotic stress tolerance in rice 🌾? The story starts in 1995 when Guoliang Wang and Wenyuan Song led the discovery of the immune receptor XA21.

🌱 How do rice roots balance growth and stress adaptation?

My new PNAS paper shows that the tyrosine-sulfated peptide OsPSY8 helps coordinate this trade-off during osmotic stress.
#Plantscience #plantstress #smallpeptide #peptidesignaling #rice

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