Maria Stolarz, Elzbieta Król, Halina Dziubinska
Department of Biophysics, Institute of Biology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland. maria.stolarz@poczta.umcs.lublin.pl
Plant signaling & behavior 2010 SepIn plants, an electrical potential and circumnutation disturbances are a part of a response to environmental and internal stimuli. Precise relations between electrical potential changes and circumnutation mechanisms are unclear. We have found recently that glutamate (Glu) injection into Helianthus annuus stem induced a series of action potentials (APs) and a transient decrease in circumnutation activity. A theoretical explanation for this finding is discussed here taking into considerations data about the ion mechanism of AP and circumnutation as well as about the metabolic and signaling pathways of glutamate and their possible interactions.
Maria Stolarz, Elzbieta Król, Halina Dziubinska. Glutamatergic elements in an excitability and circumnutation mechanism. Plant signaling & behavior. 2010 Sep;5(9):1108-11
PMID: 20729637
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