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MUGIFUMI. "Japanese farmers have known for centuries of the efficacy of applying a mechanical stress—treading, trampling, or stamping—to the seedlings of autumn-sown wheat and barley, and call this process “mugifumi” [mugifúmi] in Japanese." https://lnkd.in/dDuN9mZ View in LinkedIn

RNA AND TENSION WOOD. "Here, we report our genome-scale identification and characterization of lncRNAs differentially expressed in the xylem of tension wood, opposite wood and normal wood in Populustomentosa, by high-throughput RNA sequencing. We identified 1,377 putative lncRNAs by computational analysis, and expression and structure analyses showed that the lncRNAs had lower expression levels and shorter lengths than protein-coding transcripts in Populus." (LncRNAs = long, non-coding RNAs). https://lnkd.in/dZRGrAT View in LinkedIn

SAYING. "The wind makes the tree stronger." https://lnkd.in/d8T-4_M View in LinkedIn

GENETIC IMPACT. "Here we begin to address the genetic pathways by which a repeated mechanical stimulus leads to a developmental change during plant thigmomorphogenesis, a stereotypical developmental alteration in the plant body plan that can be induced by shaking, rubbing, bending, or brushing leaves or stems." https://lnkd.in/dv9swtZ View in LinkedIn

PLANTS AND TOUCH. "Plant morphogenesis and its regulation have fascinated researchers for more than two centuries. Among determinants of morphogenesis mechanical signals appear as an important cue. The fact that plants respond to mechanical stimuli was reported by Darwin in the 1850's." https://lnkd.in/duaG7mX View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR IMPACT. "Gentle mechanical sweeping of leaf surfaces induced a rapid increase in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration and a release of reactive oxygen species, and then enhanced resistance to B. cinerea in a jasmonate-independent manner." https://lnkd.in/dDuN9mZ View in LinkedIn

"THE ABILITY TO SENSE and respond to a wide variety of mechanical stimuli—gravity, touch, osmotic pressure, or the resistance of the cell wall—is a critical feature of every plant cell, whether or not it is specialized for mechanotransduction." https://lnkd.in/dazh-wp View in LinkedIn

PREDATOR DEFENSE STIMULATED. "Repetitive touching enhanced resistance to fungus (Botrytis cinerea) infection and cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni) infestation in a defense phytohormone jasmonate-dependent manner." https://lnkd.in/dDuN9mZ View in LinkedIn

ROSE COMPACTNESS. "Mechanical stress given to the upper part of the order 1 axis of young rose plants resulted in a reduction in axis length and an increase in the number of branching, leading to the compactness of the bush, a favorable horticultural trait." https://lnkd.in/dDuN9mZ View in LinkedIn

CHERRY ROOTS. "Effects of mechanical stress on trees have also been studied extensively. For instance, mechanical bending of the stem increased biomass allocation toward the root in wild cherry tree seedlings, avoiding the formation of poor root systems and the reduction of diameter growth of the trunk seen in mechanically untreated seedlings." https://lnkd.in/dDuN9mZ View in LinkedIn