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ArticleScientific reports2013

Circumnutation on the water surface: female flowers of Vallisneria.

Keiko Kosuge, Satoko Iida, Kiyoshi Katou, Tetsuro Mimura

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Article in Scientific reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Keiko KosugeDepartment of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Japan. kosuge@kobe-u.ac.jp
Satoko Iida
Kiyoshi Katou
Tetsuro Mimura
Kobe University · JPNagoya University · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Circumnutation, the helical movement of growing organ tips, is ubiquitous in land plants. The mechanisms underlying circumnutation have been debated since Darwin's time. Experiments in space and mutant analyses have revealed that internal oscillatory (tropism-independent) movement and gravitropic response are involved in circumnutation. Female flower buds of tape grass (Vallisneria asiatica var. biwaensis) circumnutate on the water surface. Our observations and experiments with an artificial model indicated that gravitropism is barely involved in circumnutation. Instead, we show that helical intercalary growth at the base of peduncle plays the primary role in all movements in Vallisneria. This growth pattern produces torsional bud rotation, and gravity and buoyancy forces have a physical effect on the direction of peduncle elongation, resulting in bud circumnutation on the water surface. In contrast to other water-pollinated hydrophilous plants, circumnutation in Vallisneria enables female flowers to actively collect male flowers from a larger surface area of water.

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PMID23355948
PMCPMC3555084
OpenAlexW2022057448

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