Meanings
- uncountablebiologyThe response of a plant to touch or other mechanical sensation.
Thigmomorphogenesis was first demonstrated by submitting plants to (artificial) mechanical bending.
2011, B. Moulia et al., “Integrative Mechanobiology of Growth and Architectural Development in Changing Mechanical Environments”, in Przemyslaw Wojtaszek, editor, Mechanical Integration of Plant Cells and Plants, Springer, page 2722 more examples
Some of these, such as thigmomorphogenesis, are quite well defined, but the basis of perception and response is poorly understood although some advances are being made at the molecular level.
1991, J. A. Callow, editor, Advances in Botanical Research, Volume 18, Academic Press, page viiThis effect, called thigmomorphogenesis (see chap. 3), involves the motion-induced inhibition of growth. Thigmomorphogenesis can be expressed in plant organs either exhibiting or lacking secondary growth, as well as in organs that have indeterminate or determinate growth.
1992, Karl J. Niklas, Plant Biomechanics: An Engineering Approach to Plant Form and Function, University of Chicago Press, page 322
Origin
Translations
French thigmomorphogénèse
- thigmomorphogénèseTranslations
Greek θιγμομορφογένεση
- θιγμομορφογένεση (thigmomorfogénesi)Translations
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