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Calcium ions are involved in coupling a large number of extra-cellular stimuli to a variety of physiological processes in eukaryotes. At the cellular level Ca2+ enables the cells to communicate with the exterior milieu by acting as a major intracellular second messenger.
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Paney, G.K. et al. (2001). Calcium Signaling: Downstream Components in Plants. In: Sopory, S.K., Oelmüller, R., Maheshwari, S.C. (eds) Signal Transduction in Plants. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1365-0_13
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