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The sulfotyrosine peptide hormone family,\n                  <jats:underline>P<\/jats:underline>\n                  LANT PEPTIDE CONTAINING\n                  <jats:underline>S<\/jats:underline>\n                  ULFATED T\n                  <jats:underline>Y<\/jats:underline>\n                  ROSINE (PSY), contributes to these processes. We identified two plasma membrane-localized receptors, PSYR1 and PSYR2, that are necessary for PSY signaling and regulate growth in\n                  <jats:italic>Physcomitrium patens.<\/jats:italic>\n                  Membrane-associated PSYRs accumulate to high levels in a mutant lacking TYROSYL PROTEIN SULFOTRANSFERASE (TPST). Given that a\n                  <jats:italic>tpst<\/jats:italic>\n                  null mutant (\n                  <jats:italic>\u0394tpst<\/jats:italic>\n                  ) is impaired in sulfation, this suggests that in the absence of sulfated peptides, PSYRs accumulate on the membrane. A null mutant of the PSY receptors,\n                  <jats:italic>\u0394psyr1\/<\/jats:italic>\n                  2, showed increased growth and was epistatic to\n                  <jats:italic>\u0394tpst,<\/jats:italic>\n                  suppressing defects in gametophore formation and early senescence. The transcriptional profiles comparing wild type to\n                  <jats:italic>\u0394psyr1\/2<\/jats:italic>\n                  and\n                  <jats:italic>\u0394psyr1\/2\/\u0394tpst<\/jats:italic>\n                  showed 25 to 30 differentially expressed genes between the receptor null mutants and wild type, with a common signature of cell wall remodeling and stress responses. Similarly, a PSYR1 kinase-inactive mutation rescued\n                  <jats:italic>\u0394tpst<\/jats:italic>\n                  and relieved the accumulation of membrane-associated PSYRs. In contrast, overexpression of PSYRs inhibited plant growth, with phenotypic severity correlating with the amount of overexpression. These data are consistent with a constitutive activation model in which membrane-associated PSYRs unbound to PSY serve to inhibit growth through an active kinase. In the presence of the PSY peptide, the kinase is inactivated, promoting growth and driving\n                  <jats:italic>PSY<\/jats:italic>\n                  expression. The relationship between growth-repressive PSYR kinase activity and growth-promoting PSYR kinase inactivation in\n                  <jats:italic>P. patens<\/jats:italic>\n                  serves as a model for optimizing plant growth and development.\n                <\/jats:p>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Significance Statement<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>As sessile organisms, plant growth and development rely on the intricate integration of external and internal signals. Plants produce peptide hormones and those signals are read by leucine rich receptor like kinases (LRR-RLKs), which normally are activated by binding to peptide. 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