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PROTOPLASMA
Volume 229, Issue 2-4, Pages 143-148Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00709-006-0200-4
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gravity; evolution; antigravitational material; extracellular matrix; cell wall; tensegrity; vesicular recycling
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Mechanical load is 10(3) larger for land-living than for waterliving organisms. As a consequence, antigravitational material in form of compound materials like lignified cell walls in plants and inineralised bones in animals occurs in land-living organisms preferentially. Besides cellulose, pectic substances of plant cell walls seem to function a's antigravitational material in early phases of plant evolution and development. A testable hypothesis including vesicular recycling processes into the tensegrity concept is proposed for both sensing of gravitational force and responding by production of anti gravitational material at the cellular level.
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