Biology Forum Botany Discussion Insulin in plants

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    • #11849
      anjalik
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      Recently I came across a few papers describing presence of insulin in plants.

      Can anybody speculate about the role of insulin in plants?

      Anjalik

    • #92957
      JackBean
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      Yes, anybody can speculate about the role of insulin in plants 🙂 😀

    • #93077
      MrMistery
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      Can you please provide a link to the those papers? As far as I know the closest thing plants have to insulin is auxin signaling, which has similar transduction pathways to insulin signaling.

    • #93141
      MrsSpoonbill
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      Is it possible that these papers have misspelt INULIN, the widely-distributed plant storage carbohydrate (found in Jerusalem artichoke, for example)? The Wikipedia article on inulin is pretty good.

    • #93318
      anjalik
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      Hi,

      No, inulin is totally different. I mean insulin only.

      I don’t have the weblink of the paper. If you are interested I can send the pdf copy to your personal e-mail. Pl. let me know.

      Here are the paper details. Maybe you can download.

      Isolation and intracellular localization of insulin-like proteins from leaves of
      Bauhinia variegata

      Brazilian J. Med & Biol. Res.(2006) 39: 1435-1444

    • #93322
      JackBean
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      Well, I have acces to libraries of three Universities worlwide, but I don’t think, I will be able to access Brazilian journal 😀

      EDIT
      ahh, I have checked it out and it’s actually freely available, so this link:
      http://tinyurl.com/insulin-in-plants
      shall take you to the abstract. Also full text shall be available.

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