The mutants rolled up

2002/07/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Botanika

Climbing plants, such as foam or goat pants, rotate over trees, rocks and walls. To climb turn or roll. According to the journal Nature, the key to this capacity is a gene mutation.

This is what researchers at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology of Japan say after researching special plants of Arabidopsis. In fact, plants of this species usually tend to ascend directly, but those of defective alpha-tubulin protein turn left. Researchers have found that this error is a consequence of mutation of some genes and may be an indication of plant asymmetry.