rain flattening prior to lodging
toby at stein.u.washington.edu
Mon Jun 21 15:55:44 EST 1993
In article <1993Jun21.182359.9965 at gserv1.dl.ac.uk> ajt at rri.sari.ac.uk writes:
>R.G. Walters (mbrgw at uk.ac.daresbury.s-crim1) wrote:
>: In article <1993Jun18.093650.6503 at gserv1.dl.ac.uk> ajt at rri.sari.ac.uk writes:
>: >Does the repeated flattening and recovery of young crops by heavy rain
>: >and wind result in adaptation of the crop to mechanical stress?
>: There was a "celebrated" case of a piece of Arabidopsis work looking at
>: gene induction in response to some treatment or other (sorry, can't
>: remember the details). They saw a beautiful response - but then found they
>: got the same response if they lifted up the tray and shook it every day.
>: They had been inducing THIS response during their treatment. It seems likely
>: that this is the first step in such an acclimative response.
>Can you tell us more about this 'incident' ?
I'm not Robin, but this sounds like Janet Braam's work on calmodulin-like
genes in A.t. If I'm not mistaken (it will be a first) the work was
published in Cell about 4 years ago. Janet probably reads this group
but was too polite to toot her own horn. The genes were called _touch_,
or so my memory tells me, and responded to all kinds of mechanical
stimulation but not, alas, music.
Toby Bradshaw |
Department of Biochemistry | Will make genetic linkage maps
and College of Forest Resources | for food.
University of Washington, Seattle |
toby at u.washington.edu |
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