Claim · model-written summary
Earlier studies reported that genes involved in cellular respiration and mitochondrial function are significantly enhanced at the female stage.
- Taxon
- skunk cabbage
Symplocarpus foetiduse0 - Organ / stage
- female stagee1
- Outcome
- genes involved in cellular respiration and mitochondrial function are significantly enhancede1
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Verbatim
e0“skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus renifolius)”
e1“genes involved in cellular respiration and mitochondrial function are significantly enhanced at the female stage”
Title
Ito-Inaba, Y. DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) 2019. doi:10.13128/ahs-22797
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation The spadix of skunk cabbage can maintain its temperature at approximately 22-26°C for several days even when ambient temperature falls below freezing.
- Observation In the thermogenic female stage of skunk cabbage inflorescence development, the spadix produces massive amounts of heat.
- Observation In the non-thermogenic male stage of skunk cabbage, thermogenesis is undetectable.
- Association Earlier studies reported a positive correlation between heat production and mitochondrial abundance in plant tissues and cells.
- Mechanism The review proposes that the increased respiration or mitochondrial abundance in thermogenic tissues may be attributable to high expression of specific genes.