New Role for LRR-Receptor Kinase in Sensing of Reactive Oxygen Species.

Understanding how reactive oxygen species (ROS) are sensed could help engineer plants with better stress responses that are relying on the production of ROS. Here, we summarize the latest research in ROS signaling with focus on the discovery by Wu et al. of a leucine-rich repeat receptor kinase (LRR-RK) as a hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2) sensor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]