Claim · model-written summary
Clinorotation, which removes a stable gravity reference, gives wheat roots an outward curvature
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume1 - Treatment
- clinorotatione2
- Outcome
- characteristic outward curvaturee2
- Comparator
- a stable reference to gravitye2
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Verbatim
e1“both wheat seminal roots and rice crown roots actively return toward their original growth angles following displacement”
e2“removal of a stable reference to gravity through clinorotation resulted in a characteristic outward curvature in all root types”
Title
Roots of Wheat and Rice maintain Gravitropic Setpoint Angles
Fay Stemp-Walsh; Ryan Kaye; Zoë Kitching; et al. Journal of Experimental Botany 2026. doi:10.1093/jxb/erag286
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Wheat seminal roots return toward their original growth angles after displacement
- Observation Rice crown roots return toward their original growth angles after displacement
- Intervention effect Clinorotation, which removes a stable gravity reference, gives rice roots an outward curvature
- Intervention effect Exogenous auxin makes wheat roots steeper
- Intervention effect Exogenous auxin makes rice roots steeper
- Association Wheat lateral roots return to their GSAs more effectively than rice laterals
- Observation Rice lateral roots show slower and incomplete responses
- Mechanism Cereal roots maintain GSAs through gravity-dependent and auxin-regulated mechanisms