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Amyloplast displacement is necessary for gravisensing in Arabidopsis shoots as revealed by a centrifuge microscope.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Nov 2013
Toyota Masatsugu, Ikeda Norifumi, Sawai-Toyota Satoe, Kato Takehide, Gilroy Simon, Tasaka Masao, Morita Miyo Terao
Abstract excerpt
The starch-statolith hypothesis proposes that starch-filled amyloplasts act as statoliths in plant gravisensing, moving in response to the gravity vector and signaling its direction. However, recent studies suggest that amyloplasts show continuous, complex movements in Arabidopsis shoots, contradicting the idea of a so-called 'static' or 'settled' statolith. Here, we show that amyloplast movement underlies shoot...
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