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Gravity sensing and signaling
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Gravitropism has attracted much attention from plant biologists. Recent studies have provided molecular evidence supporting two long-surviving hypotheses about the mechanism of gravitropism: the starch-statolith hypothesis and the Cholodney-Went hypothesis. Amyloplast movement along the gravity vector within gravity-sensing cells in the root and shoot is the most likely trigger of subsequent intracellular signaling. Several possible events leading from this signaling to differential auxin distribution within the sensing cells have been suggested recently.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Morita, M. T., & Tasaka, M.
- Affiliations
- Nara Institute of Science and Technology (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Morita, Miyo Terao
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Plant Biology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2004-12
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 712-718
- ISSN
- 1369-5266 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2069985396
- Cited by
- 286
- References
- 49
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- FWCI
- 1.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Current Opinion in Plant Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- RIKEN
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (15570035)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Light effects on plants
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Spaceflight effects on biology
- Keywords
- gravitropism, gravity sensing, auxin distribution, intracellular signaling, plant roots, plant shoots
- MeSH terms
- Indoleacetic Acids, Signal Transduction, Arabidopsis, Gravity Sensing, Plant Roots, Plant Shoots, Gravitropism, Arabidopsis Proteins
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