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Science 29 October 2004:
Vol. 306. no. 5697, pp. 822 - 823
DOI: 10.1126/science.1105534
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PLANT BIOLOGY:
Plant Acupuncture: Sticking PINs in the Right Places

Nicholas J. Kaplinsky and M. Kathryn Barton

The plant hormone auxin is involved in numerous growth and developmental processes. These processes all depend on differences in local auxin concentrations that are established by polar auxin transport. In their Perspective, Kaplinsky and Barton discuss new work that identifies a serine-threonine kinase called PID as a switch that regulates auxin flow by redirecting the cellular localization of auxin transport facilitator (PIN) proteins (Friml et al.).

The authors are in the Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. E-mail: barton{at}andrew2.stanford.edu

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