Responses to Stimuli

How do plants respond to environmental cues?

  • Gravity sensing: How does a plant convert an acceleration force into cellular information?
  • Auxin Transport: How is the distribution of this hormone targeted to individual cells?
  • Gravity signaling: What is the chain of events that leads to gravitropic curvature?
  • Phototropism: How does a light gradient cause differential growth?
  • Photomorphogenesis: What is light-induced development, and how is it regulated?
  • Touch Sensing: How does a plant detect an object and grow around it?