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#PlantScienceClassics #18: Ethylene triple response mutants. 35 years ago Anthony Bleecker et al. exploited the triple response phenotype to identify the #ethylene receptor ETR1. The ethylene story is another example for #PlantBlindness @NobelPrize. doi.org/10.1126/scienc… 
Ethylene is a gaseous #phytohormone with a wide range of roles from plant development to immunity. Ernest Starling in 1905 defined a hormone as mobile chemical messenger synthesized by a multicellular organism, that has physiological activity distant from the site of synthesis.
The effect of ethylene on plants was first noted in the 1900s, when it leaked from illumination gas used in lamps and affected plants nearby. But it was Dimitry Neljubow, who in a series of experiments identified ethlyene as the active substance in the illumination gas in 1905.
