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#### Marek Marzec1,2

Address all correspondence to: marek.marzec@us.edu.pl

1 Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

2 Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Stadt Seeland, Germany

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Silesia, Katowice, Poland

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(424/STYP/10/2015 and DN/MOB/245/IV/2015).

Plant Research (IPK), Stadt Seeland, Germany

Address all correspondence to: marek.marzec@us.edu.pl

Since their classification as phytohormones, great progress has been made uncovering the mechanisms of SL signaling, and identifying the main components of the SL signal transduc‐ tion pathway in both mono‐ and dicots. Certain aspects of SL perception have been found to be unique among plant hormones, requiring additional research to understand these phenomena in more detail. SLs share a number of the signaling components with the KARs group of plant growth regulators. Attention should also be paid to the respective receptor molecules since they represent the crucial element separating both signal cascades. Presently, our knowledge about the transcriptional responses to treatment with SLs and KARs is limited and information on the targets of SMAX1 and SMXLs is still meager. It also remains to be elucidated by what mechanism the different SL stereoisomers exert different plant responses. Answering this question will require detailed investigations on the binding of the different SL stereoisomers by D14. Additional insights may be gained by the adaptation of *in vivo‐*

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developed SL receptors and by screening for mutants in the SL‐signaling pathway.

The author thanks Dr. Michael Melzer and Dr. Twan Rutten for critical reading of the text. The author is supported by scholarships funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education

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2 Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop

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