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Settling for Less: Do Statoliths Modulate Gravity Perception?
Plants orientate their growth either towards (in roots) or away from (in shoots) the Earth’s gravitational field. While we are now starting to understand the molecular architecture of these gravity response pathways, the gravity receptor remains elusive. This perspective looks at the biology of stat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7020169/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31963631 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants9010121 |
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author | Ditengou, Franck Anicet Teale, William David Palme, Klaus |
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description | Plants orientate their growth either towards (in roots) or away from (in shoots) the Earth’s gravitational field. While we are now starting to understand the molecular architecture of these gravity response pathways, the gravity receptor remains elusive. This perspective looks at the biology of statoliths and suggests it is conceivable that their immediate environment may be tuned to modulate the strength of the gravity response. It then suggests how mutant screens could use this hypothesis to identify the gravity receptor. |
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spelling | pubmed-70201692020-03-09 Settling for Less: Do Statoliths Modulate Gravity Perception? Ditengou, Franck Anicet Teale, William David Palme, Klaus Plants (Basel) Perspective Plants orientate their growth either towards (in roots) or away from (in shoots) the Earth’s gravitational field. While we are now starting to understand the molecular architecture of these gravity response pathways, the gravity receptor remains elusive. This perspective looks at the biology of statoliths and suggests it is conceivable that their immediate environment may be tuned to modulate the strength of the gravity response. It then suggests how mutant screens could use this hypothesis to identify the gravity receptor. MDPI 2020-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7020169/ /pubmed/31963631 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants9010121 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Perspective Ditengou, Franck Anicet Teale, William David Palme, Klaus Settling for Less: Do Statoliths Modulate Gravity Perception? |
title | Settling for Less: Do Statoliths Modulate Gravity Perception? |
title_full | Settling for Less: Do Statoliths Modulate Gravity Perception? |
title_fullStr | Settling for Less: Do Statoliths Modulate Gravity Perception? |
title_full_unstemmed | Settling for Less: Do Statoliths Modulate Gravity Perception? |
title_short | Settling for Less: Do Statoliths Modulate Gravity Perception? |
title_sort | settling for less: do statoliths modulate gravity perception? |
topic | Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7020169/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31963631 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants9010121 |
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