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Epinasty is a perplexing behavior seen during the flooding of roots of plants. Leaf cells on the top part of the leaf and maybe especially the leaf stem outgrow the bottoms ones and the leaf drops from a horizontal to a more vertical position.
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Maybe epinasty, the downward growth of leaves that occurs during flooding, is really acting like a water pump, with the leaf, the handle, the wind acting as the invisible hand pumping the handle and the guard cell or some other special cells acting as the backflow preventing valves. ... 2. Ethylene should lead to epinasty.
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responsible for boththe epinasty and the increased ethylene production of ... relative importanceofC2H4 and auxin in the epinasty of reoriented ...
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IAA had little additional effect in dgt, but promoted epinasty in VFN8. These results confirm that tomato petiole cells respond directly to ethylene and make it unlikely that the differential growth responsible for epinasty results from lateral auxin redistribution.
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Definition of epinasty with German, Dutch, French, Italian, and Spanish translations and search. Pronunciation sound files. ... English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search ... Word of the Week...
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Ethylene activity in lettuce seed (Lactuca satina) germination and tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) petiole epinasty has been characterized by using heat to ...
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Simultaneous carbon dioxide treatments prevented the development of petiolar epinasty due to auxin and ethylene treatments. Application of ethylene gas to ...
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epinasty [ éppi nasti ] (plural epinasties) ... downward turning of a growing plant: the outward and downward bending of a plant part resulting from different growth rates on the upper and lower sides; ... Search for "epinasty" in all of MSN Encarta...
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(esp. of leaves) increased growth on the upper surface of an organ or part, causing it to bend downward. Origin: 1875–80; epi- + Gk nast(ós) pressed close + ...
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Definition of epinasty from the online medical dictionary hosted by mondofacto.
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