To test what happens to plant root growth when you remove gravity entirely, a research team from the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, grew two types of Arabidopsis thaliana cultivars ...

Nevertheless, Arabidopsis mutants with a partial loss of-function gnom allele had even stronger phototropic defects than pin3 and phot1 mutants, and GNOM was genetically epistatic over PHOT1 (ref. 4).

The starch-statolith theory of gravity reception has been tested with a mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. which, lacking plastid phosphoglucomutase (EC 2.7.5.1) activity, does not synthesize ...

Leveraging orthology within maize and Arabidopsis QTL to identify genes affecting natural variation in gravitropism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2022; 119 (40) DOI: 10.1073 ...

The article, “Leveraging orthology within maize and Arabidopsis QTL to identify genes affecting natural variation in gravitropism,” is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

A new study used machine vision to measure and compare the changes in the direction of growth in response to gravity (gravitropism) in corn and Arabidopsis seedling roots and mapped the genomic ...

Gilroy's team turns to Arabidopsis -- a small mustard plant common in plant research -- to answer their questions about zero-gravity plant growth. In their current experiment, ...

The researchers screened a library of 10,000 small molecules, the practice is known as chemical genomics, to identify those that could positively or negatively affect gravity’s effect on plant ...

What happens belowground in a corn field is easy to overlook, but corn root architecture can play an important role in water and nutrient acquisition, affecting drought tolerance, water use efficiency ...

Roots grew with skew – without gravity. But in 2010, we saw that the roots of the plants we grew on the ISS marched across the surface of their Petri plate in a perfect example of root skewing ...