Adding salt to the mix: The m6A reader ECT8 is a stress sensor, expediting mRNA decay in Arabidopsis

How do plants respond to their environment?How is it possible for a plant to thrive in diverse environmental conditions?What are the molecular signals and mechanisms that regulate these processes?These questions occupy the minds of numerous scientists seeking answers.When plants encounter stress, a molecular revolution is triggered at all levels, from gene transcription to protein regulation.At the epigenetic level, RNA modifications emerge as a crucial point.Chemical modifications of RNA, particularly N 6 -methyladenosine (m 6 A), have been shown to mediate several processes, including chromatin maintenance, RNA metabolism, translation efficiency, and various other biological events (Hu et al. 2022).