Mechanosensitive channels: feeling tension in a world under pressure
Plants, like other organisms, are facing multiple mechanical constraints generated both in their tissues and by the surrounding environment. They need to sense and adapt to these forces throughout their lifetime. To do so, different mechanisms devoted to force transduction have emerged. Here we focu...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-10-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Plant Science |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2014.00558/full |