{"id":228103,"date":"2025-12-31T01:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/ethylene-and-oxygen-found-to-drive-periderm-regeneration-after-plant-injury"},"modified":"2025-12-31T01:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:26:17","slug":"ethylene-and-oxygen-found-to-drive-periderm-regeneration-after-plant-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/ethylene-and-oxygen-found-to-drive-periderm-regeneration-after-plant-injury","title":{"rendered":"Ethylene and oxygen found to drive periderm regeneration after plant injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ethylene-and-oxygen-found-to-drive-periderm-regeneration-after-plant-injury2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plants have an extraordinary ability to sense tissue damage and quickly rebuild their protective outer layers, a process vital for survival amid environmental stresses. The periderm\u2014a specialized protective tissue found in many woody plants\u2014serves as a crucial barrier against water loss, pathogens, and mechanical injury. However, understanding how gaseous molecules enable plants to rapidly detect surface disruptions has long remained elusive.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2590346225003384\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Plant Communications<\/i> on December 8, a research team led by Prof. Chen Yaning from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography (XIEG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported new insights into gas-regulated wound signaling in plants. By examining recent advances in the field, the researchers showed that changes in the diffusion dynamics of ethylene and oxygen within plant tissues provide an efficient and rapid means of sensing breaches in surface defenses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the plant\u2019s outer barrier is damaged, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-07-oxygen-ethylene-diffusion-triggers-wound.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">endogenous ethylene<\/a> gas escapes more readily into the atmosphere (efflux), while oxygen from the environment infiltrates the tissue (influx),\u201d said Dr. Hassan Iqbal, first author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plants have an extraordinary ability to sense tissue damage and quickly rebuild their protective outer layers, a process vital for survival amid environmental stresses. The periderm\u2014a specialized protective tissue found in many woody plants\u2014serves as a crucial barrier against water loss, pathogens, and mechanical injury. However, understanding how gaseous molecules enable plants to rapidly detect [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}