Plants can reorient their growth direction by sensing organ tilt relative to the direction of gravity. With respect to gravity sensing in gravitropism, the classic starch statolith hypothesis …
T Hoson, S Kamisaka, Y Masuda, M Yamashita… - Planta, 1997 - Springer
Concerns regarding the reliability of slow-and fast-rotating uni-axial clinostats in simulating weightlessness have induced the construction of devices considered to simulate …
R Chen, E Rosen, PH Masson - Plant physiology, 1999 - academic.oup.com
Since 1806, we have known that plant organs use gravity as a guide for growth (Knight, 1806). The gravity-directed growth process, called gravitropism, dictates upward shoot …
Data and theories about the identity of the mass that acts in gravitropic sensing are reviewed. Gravity sensing may have evolved several times in plants and algae in processes …
G Leitz, BH Kang, MEA Schoenwaelder… - The Plant …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
The starch statolith hypothesis of gravity sensing in plants postulates that the sedimentation of statoliths in specialized statocytes (columella cells) provides the means for converting the …
TL Yoder, H Zheng, P Todd, LA Staehelin - Plant physiology, 2001 - academic.oup.com
Quantitative analysis of statolith sedimentation behavior was accomplished using videomicroscopy of living columella cells of corn (Zea mays) roots, which displayed no …
We have critically evaluated the possible functions of the plant cytoskeleton in root gravisensing and graviresponse and discussed the evidence that microtubules (MTs) and …
EB Blancaflor - American journal of botany, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Gravitropism is a process by which plant organs readjust their growth toward or away from the gravity vector when the plant is reoriented. The actin cytoskeleton has often been a …