Evidence map›Paper›PMID 25926839›Full record

ReviewFrontiers in plant science2015

Strategies of seedlings to overcome their sessile nature: auxin in mobility control.

Petra Žádníková, Dajo Smet, Qiang Zhu, Dominique Van Der Straeten, Eva Benková

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in plant science, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Upregulation of an IAA-GlucosyltransferasePlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Quantitative analysis of the root posture ofQuantitative plant biology · 2024
    Article
  6. A bench-top Dark-Root device built with LEGOFrontiers in plant science · 2023
    Article
  7. Review
  8. Review
  9. Article
  10. Changes induced by lead in root system architecture of Arabidopsis seedlings are mediated by PDR2-LPR1/2 phosphate dependent way.Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine · 2021
    Article
  11. Overexpression of the Auxin ReceptorInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2020
    Article
  12. CRK5 Protein Kinase Contributes to the Progression of Embryogenesis ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2019
    Article
  13. Article
  14. Deciphering Auxin-Ethylene Crosstalk at a Systems Level.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018
    Review
  15. Review
  16. Article
  17. Functional Analysis of theInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2018
    Article
  18. Article
  19. Growth-mediated plant movements: hidden in plain sight.Current opinion in plant biology · 2018
    Review
  20. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Petra ŽádníkováDepartment of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent Belgium ; Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent Belgium.
Dajo SmetDepartment of Physiology, Laboratory of Functional Plant Biology, Ghent University, Ghent Belgium.
Qiang ZhuInstitute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg Austria.
Dominique Van Der StraetenDepartment of Physiology, Laboratory of Functional Plant Biology, Ghent University, Ghent Belgium.
Eva BenkováInstitute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg Austria.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plants are sessile organisms that are permanently restricted to their site of germination. To compensate for their lack of mobility, plants evolved unique mechanisms enabling them to rapidly react to ever changing environmental conditions and flexibly adapt their postembryonic developmental program. A prominent demonstration of this developmental plasticity is their ability to bend organs in order to reach the position most optimal for growth and utilization of light, nutrients, and other resources. Shortly after germination, dicotyledonous seedlings form a bended structure, the so-called apical hook, to protect the delicate shoot meristem and cotyledons from damage when penetrating through the soil. Upon perception of a light stimulus, the apical hook rapidly opens and the photomorphogenic developmental program is activated. After germination, plant organs are able to align their growth with the light source and adopt the most favorable orientation through bending, in a process named phototropism. On the other hand, when roots and shoots are diverted from their upright orientation, they immediately detect a change in the gravity vector and bend to maintain a vertical growth direction. Noteworthy, despite the diversity of external stimuli perceived by different plant organs, all plant tropic movements share a common mechanistic basis: differential cell growth. In our review, we will discuss the molecular principles underlying various tropic responses with the focus on mechanisms mediating the perception of external signals, transduction cascades and downstream responses that regulate differential cell growth and consequently, organ bending. In particular, we highlight common and specific features of regulatory pathways in control of the bending of organs and a role for the plant hormone auxin as a key regulatory component.

Indexed as

apical hookauxindifferential growthgravitropismhormonal crosstalkphototropism

Identifiers

PMID25926839
PMCPMC4396199

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.