ArticleFrontiers in plant science2013
Root apex transition zone as oscillatory zone.
Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
69 citing papers in PubMed, 138 citations in OpenAlex.
- Learning in plants: A conceptual and experimental primer.Learning & behavior · 2026Article
- Synchronized Chromatin Reorganization as a Key Biomarker in Anesthetic Effects on Plants.Chemical & biomedical imaging · 2026Article
- Plants have two minds as we do.Plant signaling & behavior · 2025Review
- To grow or not to grow: the enigma of plant root growth dynamism.Plant molecular biology · 2025Review
- Identification of a Specific Role of Dihydrozeatin in the Regulation of the Cell Differentiation Activity inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Identifying Root-Associated Endophytic Fungi and Bacteria inMicroorganisms · 2025Article
- A minimal model of cognition based on oscillatory and current-based reinforcement processes.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- On Emergence of Spontaneous Oscillations in Kombucha and Proteinoids.BioNanoScience · 2025Review
- Common bean under different water availability reveals classifiable stimuli-specific signatures in plant electrome.Plant signaling & behavior · 2024Article
- A system for the study of roots 3D kinematics in hydroponic culture: a study on the oscillatory features of root tip.Plant methods · 2024Article
- On being a Hydra with, and without, a nervous system: what do neurons add?Animal cognition · 2023Review
- Exploring the Role of the Plant Actin Cytoskeleton: From Signaling to Cellular Functions.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- The Growth Oscillator and Plant Stomata: An Open and Shut Case.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Biotic stress-induced changes in root exudation confer plant stress tolerance by altering rhizospheric microbial community.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Review
- Building bridges: mycelium-mediated plant-plant electrophysiological communication.Plant signaling & behavior · 2022Article
- Algal Ocelloids and Plant Ocelli.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A mutation in THREONINE SYNTHASE 1 uncouples proliferation and transition domains of the root apical meristem: experimental evidence and in silico proposed mechanism.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2022Article
- Open quantum dynamics for plant motions.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- A Protocol for Genome-Wide Analysis of DNA Replication Timing in Intact Root Tips.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022Article
- A perspective on cell proliferation kinetics in the root apical meristem.Journal of experimental botany · 2021Review
9 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Root apex of higher plants shows very high sensitivity to environmental stimuli. The root cap acts as the most prominent plant sensory organ; sensing diverse physical parameters such as gravity, light, humidity, oxygen, and critical inorganic nutrients. However, the motoric responses to these stimuli are accomplished in the elongation region. This spatial discrepancy was solved when we have discovered and characterized the transition zone which is interpolated between the apical meristem and the subapical elongation zone. Cells of this zone are very active in the cytoskeletal rearrangements, endocytosis and endocytic vesicle recycling, as well as in electric activities. Here we discuss the oscillatory nature of the transition zone which, together with several other features of this zone, suggest that it acts as some kind of command center. In accordance with the early proposal of Charles and Francis Darwin, cells of this root zone receive sensory information from the root cap and instruct the motoric responses of cells in the elongation zone.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.