(ANSA) - Rome, October 7 - There is an Italian link to
Monday's Nobel Prize in Medicine for Briton Peter Ratcliffe and
William Kaelin e Gregg Semenza of the USA.
"We collaborated with Ratcliffe to see if the mechanism with
which plants perceive oxygen, discovered by us, is similar to
the one on which the scientist who got the Nobel today was
working on with animal cells," said Pierdomenico Perata of
Pisa's Sant'Anna School.
Perata worked with Francesco Licausi and Beatrice Giuntoli,
now both at Pisa University.
Italian link to Nobel Prize for Medicine
Plant oxygen sensors similar to animal ones