Circumnutation augmented in clinostatted plants by a tactile stimulus |
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Authors: | DK Chapman AH Brown |
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Institution: | University City Science Center and Biology Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
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Abstract: | Dark-grown, 4-day old, seedlings were rotated for 20 hr on horizontal clinostats to minimize the amplitude of circumnutation. Then a Plexiglas sheet was placed gently against the tip of the cotyledons. By time-lapse video imaging (using intermittent IR illumination to which the plants were insensitive) movements of the clinostatted plants were observed before, during, and after the period of mechanical contact. Immediately after the Plexiglas sheet was removed residual nutation increased in amplitude almost three-fold, then declined over the next 7 hr to the prestimulation level. This demonstration of enhancement of circumnutation by mechanical contact is consistent with the model of an endogenous oscillator that can be stimulated by factors other than gravity. |
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