The role of mechanical forces in plant morphogenesis

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2011, Pages 365-385

  Mirabet, Vincent ^a   Das, Pradeep ^a   Boudaoud, Arezki ^a   Hamant, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

biophysics; cell wall; growth; mechanosensing; positional information; stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955640800     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042110-103852     Document Type: Article

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