Short communication: Mechanoreceptors rather than sedimentable amyloplasts perceive the gravity signal in hypergravity-induced inhibition of root growth in azuki bean

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 175-179

  Soga, Kouichi ^a   Wakabayashi, Kazuyuki ^a   Kamisaka, Seiichiro ^b   Hoson, Takayuki ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Azuki bean; Graviperception; Growth inhibition; Hypergravity; Mechanoreceptor; Roots; Vigna angularis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CENTRIFUGATION; GADOLINIUM; GROWTH KINETICS; LANTHANUM;

AZUKI BEANS; HYPERGRAVITY; MECHANORECEPTORS; PLASMA MEMBRANES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

GROWTH RATE; MECHANORECEPTION; ROOT;

CENTRIFUGATION; GADOLINIUM; GROWTH; LANTHANUM; LOGARITHMS; MEMBRANES; PLANTS; ROOTS;

PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); VIGNA ANGULARIS;

GADOLINIUM; GADOLINIUM CHLORIDE; LANTHANUM; LANTHANUM CHLORIDE; PHYTOHORMONE;

ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; GRAVITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEGUME; MECHANORECEPTOR; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; PLANT ROOT CAP; PLASTID; SEEDLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CENTRIFUGATION; FABACEAE; GADOLINIUM; GRAVITATION; GRAVITY PERCEPTION; HYPERGRAVITY; LANTHANUM; MECHANORECEPTORS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT ROOT CAP; PLANT ROOTS; PLASTIDS; SEEDLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 22844442610     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP04145     Document Type: Article

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