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Etiolated seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana nutated under conditions of physiological darkness while about ten percent of monitored individuals exhibited regular elliptical nutation, circumnutation. Pre-irradiation with red light prevented occurrence of circumnutation without having an effect on the average rate of the nutational movement. Phototropic response of seedlings to unilateral blue light appeared to be superimposed over nutation. Throughout gravitropism, some seedlings continued to exhibit nutation suggesting that these two processes are independently controlled. Based on these results, we suggest that nutation in Arabidopsis probably is not controlled by the mechanism predicted by the theory of gravitropic overshoots.
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Orbović*, V., Poff, K.L. Interaction of light and gravitropism with nutation of hypocotyls of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings. Plant Growth Regulation 23, 141–146 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005853128971
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