Journey towards the centre of the Earth: Plant gravitropism

Biologist

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 229-233

  Swatzell, Lucinda J ^a   Kiss, John Z ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOLEACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; INTEGRIN;

ALGA; GRAVITROPISM; GRAVITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; NASA DISCIPLINE PLANT BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

NASA DISCIPLINE PLANT BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ALGAE; GRAVITATION; GRAVITROPISM; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; INTEGRINS; LIGHT; PERCEPTION; PLANTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0039004396     PISSN: 00063347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (14)

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2. Evans M L and Ishikawa H (1997) Cellular specificity of the gravitropic motor response in roots. Planta, 203, S115-S122.
3. Katembe W J, Swatzell L J, Makaroff C A and Kiss J Z (1997) Immunolocalization of integrin-like proteins in Arabidopsis and Chara. Physiologia Plantarum 99, 7-14.
4. Kiss J Z, Edelmann R E and Wood P C (1999) Gravitropism of hypocotyls of wild-type and starch-deficient Arabidopsis seedlings in spaceflight studies. Planta, 209, 96-103.
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12. http://sunflower.bio.indiana.edu/~rhangart/plantmotion/ plantsinmotion.html Plants in motion. This is a great site and very relevant for this article. It includes some nice movies of plant tropisms.
13. http://science.nasa.gov/default.stm NASA space science news.
14. http://miavx1.muohio.edu/~journalcwis/compass97/kiss.html Information about John Kiss's 1997 space shuttle experiments.