Two root tips of thale cress, Arabidopsis thaliana. (IMAGE)

University of Münster

Two root tips of thale cress, Arabidopsis thaliana.

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The cells contain a biosensor (roGFP2iL) in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) which reads the ambient redox status and indicates reductive stress in the right-hand root.

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Markus Schwarzländer, Philippe Fuchs

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