Premium
Cover Caption: Microtubules in Shade Avoidance
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of integrative plant biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.734
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1744-7909
pISSN - 1672-9072
DOI - 10.1111/jipb.12266
Subject(s) - hypocotyl , canopy , arabidopsis , microtubule , biology , shade avoidance , botany , mutant , cover (algebra) , horticulture , microbiology and biotechnology , gene , genetics , engineering , mechanical engineering
When plants such as Arabidopsis are under canopy shade, the most prominent response is the elongations of stems/petioles. In this issue, Yu et al. (pp. 757–769) report that shade avoidance 2 ( sav 2) mutant (the bottom one in two SEM photos, and the right one in two seedlings) exhibits short and swollen hypocotyls when grown in shade. SAV 2 encodes a β‐tubulin, suggesting cMTs is cortical in regulating anisotropic cell growth.