Plants have developed many strategies to adapt to their environment. In an interdisciplinary study, the teams of Marie-Edith Chabouté, Olivier Hamant and Atef Asnacios have shown that the cell nucleus becomes more compact and stiffer in response to drought. This response involving a regulator of the nuclear envelope leads to a strong expression of genes conferring the plant resistance to stress. This work was published on April 23, 2020 in the journal Current Biology.
When the shape of the nucleus communicates stress in plants!
