ArticlePlanta2005
Gravitropic moss cells default to spiral growth on the clinostat and in microgravity during spaceflight.
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- Conducting Plant Experiments in Space and on the Moon.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022Review
- How plants grow under gravity conditions besides 1 g: perspectives from hypergravity and space experiments that employ bryophytes as a model organism.Plant molecular biology · 2021Review
- The dynamics of plant nutation.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Genetic localization of the SPC gene controlling pod coiling direction in Medicago truncatula.Genes & genomics · 2020Article
- A Celebration of Fred David Sack.Plant physiology · 2017Article
- A hypergravity environment increases chloroplast size, photosynthesis, and plant growth in the moss Physcomitrella patens.Journal of plant research · 2017Article
- Plasticity-mediated persistence in new and changing environments.International journal of evolutionary biology · 2014Review
- Regeneration of Little Ice Age bryophytes emerging from a polar glacier with implications of totipotency in extreme environments.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013Article
- Plant growth strategies are remodeled by spaceflight.BMC plant biology · 2012Article
- Gravitational biology and space life sciences: current status and implications for the Indian space programme.Journal of biosciences · 2011Review
- An endogenous growth pattern of roots is revealed in seedlings grown in microgravity.Astrobiology · 2011Article
- Subnucleolar location of fibrillarin and NopA64 in Lepidium sativum root meristematic cells is changed in altered gravity.Protoplasma · 2006Article
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Abstract
In addition to shoots and roots, the gravity (g)-vector orients the growth of specialized cells such as the apical cell of dark-grown moss protonemata. Each apical cell of the moss Ceratodon purpureus senses the g-vector and adjusts polar growth accordingly producing entire cultures of upright protonemata (negative gravitropism). The effect of withdrawing a constant gravity stimulus on moss growth was studied on two NASA Space Shuttle (STS) missions as well as during clinostat rotation on earth. Cultures grown in microgravity (spaceflight) on the STS-87 mission exhibited two successive phases of non-random growth and patterning, a radial outgrowth followed by the formation of net clockwise spiral growth. Also, cultures pre-aligned by unilateral light developed clockwise hooks during the subsequent dark period. The second spaceflight experiment flew on STS-107 which disintegrated during its descent on 1 February 2003. However, most of the moss experimental hardware was recovered on the ground, and most cultures, which had been chemically fixed during spaceflight, were retrieved. Almost all intact STS-107 cultures displayed strong spiral growth. Non-random culture growth including clockwise spiral growth was also observed after clinostat rotation. Together these data demonstrate the existence of default non-random growth patterns that develop at a population level in microgravity, a response that must normally be overridden and masked by a constant g-vector on earth.
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