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Micrasterias as a Model System in Plant Cell Biology

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Plant Science, July 2016
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Title
Micrasterias as a Model System in Plant Cell Biology
Published in
Frontiers in Plant Science, July 2016
DOI 10.3389/fpls.2016.00999
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Ursula Lütz-Meindl

Abstract

The unicellular freshwater alga Micrasterias denticulata is an exceptional organism due to its complex star-shaped, highly symmetric morphology and has thus attracted the interest of researchers for many decades. As a member of the Streptophyta, Micrasterias is not only genetically closely related to higher land plants but shares common features with them in many physiological and cell biological aspects. These facts, together with its considerable cell size of about 200 μm, its modest cultivation conditions and the uncomplicated accessibility particularly to any microscopic techniques, make Micrasterias a very well suited cell biological plant model system. The review focuses particularly on cell wall formation and composition, dictyosomal structure and function, cytoskeleton control of growth and morphogenesis as well as on ionic regulation and signal transduction. It has been also shown in the recent years that Micrasterias is a highly sensitive indicator for environmental stress impact such as heavy metals, high salinity, oxidative stress or starvation. Stress induced organelle degradation, autophagy, adaption and detoxification mechanisms have moved in the center of interest and have been investigated with modern microscopic techniques such as 3-D- and analytical electron microscopy as well as with biochemical, physiological and molecular approaches. This review is intended to summarize and discuss the most important results obtained in Micrasterias in the last 20 years and to compare the results to similar processes in higher plant cells.

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Unknown 33 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 33%
Researcher 4 12%
Student > Master 4 12%
Student > Postgraduate 2 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 6%
Other 4 12%
Unknown 6 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 39%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 27%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 3%
Unknown 10 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 August 2021.
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#7,240,924
of 22,881,154 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Plant Science
#4,465
of 20,270 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#120,609
of 354,423 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Plant Science
#98
of 517 outputs
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