ArticleScience advances2020
Touch-induced seedling morphological changes are determined by ethylene-regulated pectin degradation.
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- Morphological Innovation Drives Sperm Release in Bryophytes.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Changes induced by parental neighboring touch in the clonal plantFrontiers in plant science · 2024Article
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- Cajanus cajan shows multiple novel adaptations in response to regular mechanical stress.Journal of plant research · 2022Article
- The retrograde signaling regulator ANAC017 recruits the MKK9-MPK3/6, ethylene, and auxin signaling pathways to balance mitochondrial dysfunction with growth.The Plant cell · 2022Article
- Dynamics of pectic homogalacturonan in cellular morphogenesis and adhesion, wall integrity sensing and plant development.Nature plants · 2022Review
- Mechanosensing, from forces to structures.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Review
- Genome-Wide Analysis and Expression Profiles of Ethylene Signal Genes and Apetala2/Ethylene-Responsive Factors in Peanut (Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Plant multiscale networks: charting plant connectivity by multi-level analysis and imaging techniques.Science China. Life sciences · 2021Review
- Ethylene Signaling Facilitates Plant Adaption to Physical Barriers.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Review
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
How mechanical forces regulate plant growth is a fascinating and long-standing question. After germination underground, buried seedlings have to dynamically adjust their growth to respond to mechanical stimulation from soil barriers. Here, we designed a lid touch assay and used atomic force microscopy to investigate the mechanical responses of seedlings during soil emergence. Touching seedlings induced increases in cell wall stiffness and decreases in cell elongation, which were correlated with pectin degradation. We revealed that
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