Article
The response of lazy-2 tomato seedlings to curvature-inducing magnetic gradients is modulated by light.
Planta - 1 Mar 1999
Hasenstein K H, Kuznetsov O A
Abstract excerpt
Shoots of the lazy-2 mutant of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill., cv. Ailsa Craig) exhibit negative gravitropism in the dark, but respond positively gravitropically in (red) light. In order to test whether high-gradient magnetic fields (HGMFs) exert only ponderomotive effects on amyloplasts or affect other physiological processes, we induced magnetophoretic curvature in wild-type (WT) and lazy-2 mutant...
Topics
- Genes, Plant
- Gravitation
- Gravitropism
- Gravity Sensing
- Hypocotyl
- Light
- Solanum lycopersicum
- Magnetics
- Mutation
- Plant Shoots
- Plastids
- Rotation