Edelmann, Hans Georg (2018). Graviperception in maize plants: is amyloplast sedimentation a red herring? Protoplasma, 255 (6). S. 1877 - 1882. WIEN: SPRINGER WIEN. ISSN 1615-6102

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Abstract

Land plants perceive gravity and respond to it in an organ-specific way; shoots typically direct growth upwards, roots typically downwards. Historically, at least with respect to maize plants, this phenomenon is attributed to three sequential processes, namely graviperception, the transduction of the perceived signal, and the graviresponse, resulting in a typical (re)positioning of the organ or entire plant body relative to the gravivector. For decades, sedimentation of starch-containing plastids within the cells of special tissues has been regarded as the primary and initiating process fundamental for gravitropic growth (starch-statolith hypothesis). Based on Popper's falsification principle, uncompromising experiments were executed. The results indicate that the model of graviperception based on amyloplast sedimentation does not apply to maize seedlings.

Item Type: Journal Article
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Edelmann, Hans GeorgUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-168557
DOI: 10.1007/s00709-018-1272-7
Journal or Publication Title: Protoplasma
Volume: 255
Number: 6
Page Range: S. 1877 - 1882
Date: 2018
Publisher: SPRINGER WIEN
Place of Publication: WIEN
ISSN: 1615-6102
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ROOT GRAVITROPISM; STATOLITH THEORY; AUXIN TRANSPORT; ARABIDOPSIS; GROWTH; MODEL; CAP; GEOTROPISM; DYNAMICSMultiple languages
Plant Sciences; Cell BiologyMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/16855

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