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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00878-w
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- European Research Council MechanoDevo [615739]
- ANR Chaire d'excellence [ANR-10-CHEX-0011]
- Fonds de Recherche du Quebec-Nature et Technologies
- BBSRC
- European Research Council [307387]
- European Research Council (ERC) [615739, 307387] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-10-CHEX-0011] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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Responses of cells to mechanical stress are thought to be critical in coordinating growth and development. Consistent with this idea, mechanically activated channels play important roles in animal development. For example, the PIEZO1 channel controls cell division and epithelial-layer integrity and is necessary for vascular development in mammals. In plants, the actual contribution of mechanoperception to development remains questionable because very few putative mechanosensors have been identified and the phenotypes of the corresponding mutants are rather mild. Here, we show that the Arabidopsis Defective Kernel 1 (DEK1) protein, which is essential for development beyond early embryogenesis, is associated with a mechanically activated Ca2+ current in planta, suggesting that perception of mechanical stress plays a critical role in plant development.
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