| Title |
Graviperception in maize plants: is amyloplast sedimentation a red herring?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Protoplasma, June 2018
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00709-018-1272-7 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Hans Georg Edelmann |
| 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. |
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