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• TITLE: A Botanist’s Cognitive View on Plant Growth: Cross-Talk between Developmental and Sensitivity Networks

  AUTHORS: Dhananjay K. Pandey, Bhupendra Chaudhary

  KEYWORDS: Tropism, Anisotropy, Plant Development, Polar Auxin Transport, Phototropic Response, Gravitropic Response

  JOURNAL NAME: American Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol.7 No.15, November 24, 2016

  ABSTRACT: An alteration in plant phenotypes assisted by their responses to the environmental stimuli (=tropism) has been fundamental to understand the “plant sensitivity ” that plays a crucial role in plants’ adaptive success. Plants succeed through the deployment of moderators controlling polar auxin-transport determining organ bending. Stimulus-specific effectors can be synthesized by the outer peripheral cells at the bending sites where they target highly conserved cellular processes and potentially persuade the plant sensitivity at large. Remarkably, the peripheral cells require different time-intervals to achieve the threshold expression-levels of stimulus-specific molecular responders. After stimulus perception, tropic curvatures (especially at growing root-apices) are duly coordinated via integrated chemical and electrical signalling which is the key to cellular communications. Thus, the acquired phenotypic alterations are the perplexed outcome of plant’s developmental pace, complemented by the sensitivity. A novel aspect of this study is to advance our understanding of plant developmental-programming and the extent of plant-sensitivity, determining the plant growth and their future applications.