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Disproval of the Starch-Amyloplast Hypothesis?
- Source :
- Trends in Plant Science. 24:291-293
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- In a recent publication, Edelmann (Protoplasma 2018; 255,1877-1881) refuted the well-established starch-amyloplast hypothesis of gravitropism in plants. Gravitropic curvatures of shoots and roots were still present after amyloplast-containing tissues (in sheath of vascular bundles and root caps) were dissected. Here, we discuss Edelmann's data in the light of Popper's falsification principle.
Details
- ISSN :
- 13601385
- Volume :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Trends in Plant Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........4545dad33f22b94c08e5c99968c55d1d