Plant Tropisms

The same second messengers have been implicated in the modulation of gravity sig- nal transduction in aboveground organs as in r ...

Unfortunately, the aequorin-derived signal could only be detected if hundreds of Arabidopsisseedlings were examined in bulk, and ...

the plastids’ osmotic pressure during division through mechanisms related to those of mechano-sensitive ion channels (Haswell an ...

occurred only in the lower pulvinus halves and correlated with the bending response. These changes in InsP 3 levels were functio ...

baseline levels within 8 to 10 min (Scott and Allen 1999; Fasano et al. 2001; Boonsirichai et al. 2003; Young et al. 2006). Alth ...

pects of polar auxin transport or auxin response, a few have been obtained that affect ear- lier phases of gravity signal transd ...

Although the Arabidopsis thalianagenome contains more than 90 J-domain genes (Miernyk 2001), only two encode proteins that are s ...

mentation in gravity susception, and uncovered an important role for vacuolar biogene- sis and function in gravity perception or ...

displayed increased GUS expression on the lower side in an extended region along the elongation zone of its stems (Nadella et al ...

tained short, conserved sequences in their promoters, suggesting a potential role for these DNA motifs as cis-elements in the re ...

samples, and separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2D-GE). This form of electrophoresis separates proteins based on ...

Ca2+signal transduction pathway as being differentially represented in the root tip of Arabidopsis thalianaseedlings upon 0.5 an ...

gravitropism. A mutation in this gene resulted in plants displaying altered kinetics of root graviresponse and longer presentati ...

They also constitute an outstanding list of markers that can be used to better define the pathways involved in gravity signal tr ...

associated molecules within the root statocytes (Boonsirichai et al. 2003). It is interesting to note that several of the molecu ...

Recent studies provide potential auxin-related explanations for the surprising character- istics of the initial phases of root g ...

organs will tend to grow at a defined angle from the vertical (called gravity set point angle or GSA) after emerging from the pr ...

Arabidopsis-Genome-Initiative. 2000. Analysis of the genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana.Nature408:796–8 ...

Hou G, Kramer V, Wang Y, Chen R, Perbal G, Gilroy S, and Blancaflor E. 2004. The promotion of gravitropism in Arabidopsis roots ...

Miernyk J. 2001 The J-domain proteins of Arabidopsis thaliana: An unexpectedly large and di- verse family of chaperones. Cell St ...