Insights into the microstructures of hygroscopic movement in plant seed dispersal
Abstract
There are three modes of hygroscopic movement: bending, twisting, and coiling. Cellulose microfibrils organization sets the cells' deformation in dehydration. The arrangement of active cells in the tissue defines the motion characteristics. Hygroscopic dispersal is adapted to fast or slow motion, and repeating or single use.
- Publication:
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Plant Science
- Pub Date:
- June 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.plantsci.2014.03.014
- Bibcode:
- 2014PlnSc.223..124E
- Keywords:
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- Seed dispersal;
- Hygroscopic movement;
- Coiling;
- Twisting;
- Bending