“…In Arabidopsis, it has been observed that the abscission deficiency in ida mutants cannot be restored by ethylene treatment, suggesting that the IDA pathway might regulate abscission in an ethylene-independent manner (Jinn et al, 2000;Butenko et al, 2003Butenko et al, , 2006. However, this conclusion has been challenged by several studies indicating that IDA homologous genes from various species, such as tomato, soybean, oil palm, citrus, tea, rose, and yellow lupine, are activated during ethylene-induced abscission, and their expression can be delayed by using inhibitors of ethylene synthesis (Tucker and Yang, 2012;Estornell et al, 2015;Stø et al, 2015;Ying et al, 2016;Wilmowicz et al, 2018;Li et al, 2021;Yang et al, 2021, Singh et al, 2023. Furthermore, ethylene has also been shown to play a role in Arabidopsis cauline leaf abscission induced by water stress and rewatering, a process that requires the IDA-HAE/HSL2 pathway (Meir et al, 2022).…”