TY - JOUR
T1 - A force of nature
T2 - Molecular mechanisms of mechanoperception in plants
AU - Monshausen, Gabriele B.
AU - Haswell, Elizabeth S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Science Foundation grants MCB-1121994 (to G.B.M.) and MCB-1253103 (to E.S.H.) and National Institutes of Health grant R01 GM084211-01 (to E.S.H.). The authors would also like to acknowledge the members of their laboratories, past and present, for their contributions to the work described here.
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - The ability to sense and respond to a wide variety of mechanical stimuli - gravity, touch, osmotic pressure, or the resistance of the cell wall - is a critical feature of every plant cell, whether or not it is specialized for mechanotrans-duction. Mechanoperceptive events are an essential part of plant life, required for normal growth and development at the cell, tissue, and whole-plant level and for the proper response to an array of biotic and abiotic stresses. One current challenge for plant mechanobiologists is to link these physiological responses to specific mechanoreceptors and signal transduction pathways. Here, we describe recent progress in the identification and characterization of two classes of putative mechanoreceptors, ion channels and receptor-like kinases. We also discuss how the secondary messenger Ca 2+ operates at the centre of many of these mechanical signal transduction pathways.
AB - The ability to sense and respond to a wide variety of mechanical stimuli - gravity, touch, osmotic pressure, or the resistance of the cell wall - is a critical feature of every plant cell, whether or not it is specialized for mechanotrans-duction. Mechanoperceptive events are an essential part of plant life, required for normal growth and development at the cell, tissue, and whole-plant level and for the proper response to an array of biotic and abiotic stresses. One current challenge for plant mechanobiologists is to link these physiological responses to specific mechanoreceptors and signal transduction pathways. Here, we describe recent progress in the identification and characterization of two classes of putative mechanoreceptors, ion channels and receptor-like kinases. We also discuss how the secondary messenger Ca 2+ operates at the centre of many of these mechanical signal transduction pathways.
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U2 - 10.1093/jxb/ert204
DO - 10.1093/jxb/ert204
M3 - Review article
C2 - 23913953
AN - SCOPUS:84887910492
SN - 0022-0957
VL - 64
SP - 4663
EP - 4680
JO - Journal of experimental botany
JF - Journal of experimental botany
IS - 15
ER -