Plant stems: a possible model system for the transduction of mechanical information in bone modeling.
review · Level V
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Abstract
As a grass stem bends in the wind, signals at the subcellular level initiate a process of stem strengthening. The same happens in human bones. What have the two got in common?
Medical subject headings
- Plant Physiological Phenomena