All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 January Plants and animals sense nutrients the same way Plants and animals sense nutrients the same way 30/01/2020 | 3 MINS Researchers at LIT have discovered that plants and animals use the same signalling process to manage their nutrient levels. The knowledge could help improve the use of energy in crops, leading to better yields in the future. The study, published in the journal The Plant Cell, showed plants and animals balance their nutrient and energy in similar ways through the use of a protein called Target of Rapamycin (TOR). Dr Brendan OΓÇÖLeary from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology at LIT, who led the study, said just as human bodies decide whether to store nutrients for growth, or burn them for energy, plants needed to do the same. ΓÇ£While feeding plants different nutrients and measuring metabolism changes we observed that the plantsΓÇÖ cells were reacting in a remarkably similar way to animal cells,ΓÇ¥ he said. ΓÇ£Obviously plants and animals are very different in how they obtain food, so we were surprised to di
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 January Plants and animals sense nutrients the same way Plants and animals sense nutrients the same way 30/01/2020 | 3 MINS Researchers at LIT have discovered that plants and animals use the same signalling process to manage their nutrient levels.
The knowledge could help improve the use of energy in crops, leading to better yields in the future.
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The study, published in the journal The Plant Cell, showed plants and animals balance their nutrient and energy in similar ways through the use of a protein called Target of Rapamycin (TOR).
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Dr Brendan OΓÇÖLeary from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology at LIT, who led the study, said just as human bodies decide whether to store nutrients for growth, or burn them for energy, plants needed to do the same.
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ΓÇ£While feeding plants different nutrients and measuring metabolism changes we observed that the plantsΓÇÖ cells were reacting in a remarkably similar way to animal cells,ΓÇ¥ he said.
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ΓÇ£Obviously plants and animals are very different in how they obtain food, so we were surprised to di
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