Unleashing the potential of peptides in agriculture and beyond
Affiliation:
1. Institut des Sciences des Plantes de Montpellier (IPSiM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Recherche pour l''Agriculture, l''Alimentation, et l''Environnement (INRAE), Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France;1. Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou, China;2. College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, Heilongjiang, China;1. Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany;2. Center for Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria;1. CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal;2. BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal;3. Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Granada, Campus Fuentenueva, 18071 Granada, Spain;4. Research Unit Modeling Nature, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain;5. CIFC – Centro de Investigação das Ferrugens do Cafeeiro, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Quinta do Marquês, 2784-505 Oeiras, Portugal;6. LEAF – Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal;1. Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Department of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA;2. Unidad de Genómica Avanzada/LANGEBIO, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, Irapuato, México
Abstract:
Peptides display a broad range of regulatory functions. Ormancey et al. recently identified an important new mechanism – complementary peptides (cPEPs) – that provide a versatile means to control cell functions. We draw a parallel between RNA and peptide biology, and discuss new routes of investigation and industrial applications opened by this work.