Plants often experience multiple stresses to which they adapt by mounting specific responses. Nitrogen supply allows plants to better recover from drought, and this is linked to inhibition of the SnRK2 kinase, which is shown to destabilize the NLP7 master transcription factor for nitrate signals.
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Broutin, J., Meyer, C. Nitrate to spark parched plants. Nat. Plants 11, 2192–2193 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-02150-2
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