Touch Sensing and Thigmotropism

Plant Tropisms

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 91-122

  Monshausen, Gabriele B ^a   Swanson, Sarah J ^a   Gilroy, Simon ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mechanoresponse; Plant development; Tendrils; Thigmotropism; Touch sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 54449097110     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470388297.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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