Publications by authors named "Keitaro Sakaguchi"
Article Synopsis
- Plants can sense gravity and adjust their growth direction, and researchers are studying specific Arabidopsis mutants to understand this process.
- The mutant sgr5-1 exhibits reduced gravitation response in the stem, but normal results in roots and hypocotyls, indicating a potential role of the SGR5 protein as a transcription factor located in the nucleus.
- SGR5 is highly expressed in gravity-sensing endodermal cells of the inflorescence stem and its specific expression can restore gravotropic response, suggesting it could be crucial for the initial stages of gravity perception and signaling in plants.
