Cortical microtubules are responsible for gravity resistance in plants

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 752-754

  Hoson, Takayuki ^a   Matsumoto, Shouhei ^a   Soga, Kouichi ^a   Wakabayashi, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortical microtubules; Gravity; Gravity resistance; Hypergravity; Mechanoreceptor; Microgravity; Tubulin mutants

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 84860207134     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.5.6.11706     Document Type: Article

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