“…There are 13 functional 14-3-3 genes in Arabidopsis, and they have been shown to act in multiple physiological processes (Chevalier et al, 2009;Oecking and Jaspert, 2009;Denison et al, 2011), including brassinosteroid signaling (Gampala et al, 2007;Ryu et al, 2007), the regulation of flowering time (Mayfield et al, 2007;Purwestri et al, 2009), the regulation of activity of nitrate reductase (Huber et al, 2002), light signaling (Mayfield et al, 2007), and nutrient acquisition (Xu et al, 2012;Yang et al, 2013). In animals, 14-3-3s have a wellestablished role in regulating the turnover of a variety of proteins (Dougherty and Morrison, 2004), though there are relatively few reports of such a function in plants (Weiner and Kaiser, 1999;Nakashima et al, 2007;Oh et al, 2010).…”