“…More speci®cally, it is thought to play a role in the response to pathogens (Chapman, 1998;Young et al, 1996), wounding (Lee et al, 1997;Ryu and Wang, 1998), water stress (Frank et al 2000;Munnik et al, unpublished data), and the plant stress hormones ethylene (Fan et al, 1997;Lee et al, 1998) and abscisic acid (Fan et al, 1997;Jacob et al, 1999;Ritchie and Gilroy, 1998). Some of these effects may be mediated by G-protein-coupled stress receptors, because G-protein activators such as mastoparans, alcohols and cholera toxin activate PLD in the absence of stress (De Vrije and Munnik, 1997;Munnik et al, 1995;Munnik et al, 1998b;Van Himbergen et al, 1999). As yet few PA-induced responses have been reported, but treatment of the green alga Chlamydomonas moewusii immediately resulted in de¯agellation (Munnik et al, 1995), while similar treatment of barley aleurone cells inhibited the secretion of a-amylase (Ritchie and Gilroy, 1998), and recently PA has been shown to induce stomatal closure (Jacob et al, 1999).…”