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SUBMITTER: Verger S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5963923 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Verger Stéphane S Long Yuchen Y Boudaoud Arezki A Hamant Olivier O
eLife 20180423
Mechanical forces have emerged as coordinating signals for most cell functions. Yet, because forces are invisible, mapping tensile stress patterns in tissues remains a major challenge in all kingdoms. Here we take advantage of the adhesion defects in the <i>Arabidopsis</i> mutant <i>quasimodo1 (qua1)</i> to deduce stress patterns in tissues. By reducing the water potential and epidermal tension <i>in planta</i>, we rescued the adhesion defects in <i>qua1</i>, formally associating gaping and tens ...[more]