New role for protein family could provide path to how crop traits are modified

Pioneering new research from a team of Indiana University Bloomington biologists has shown for the first time that a protein which has been long known to be critical for the initiation of protein synthesis in all organisms can also play a role in the regulation of gene expression in some bacteria, and probably land plants as well.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-09/iu-…