Circumnutation Tracker: novel software for investigation of circumnutation

Plant Methods

Halina Dziubińska¹  Elżbieta Król¹  Maciej Żuk¹  Maria Stolarz¹ 

[1] Department of Biophysics, Institute of Biology and Biochemistry, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Akademicka 19, Lublin 20-033, Poland

关键词: Helianthus annuus;    Software;    Plant movement;    Time-lapse;    Circumnutation;   

Others  :  1225053
DOI  :  10.1186/1746-4811-10-24

 received in 2014-04-08, accepted in 2014-07-15,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

An endogenous, helical plant organ movement named circumnutation is ubiquitous in the plant kingdom. Plant shoots, stems, tendrils, leaves, and roots commonly circumnutate but their appearance is still poorly described. To support such investigations, novel software Circumnutation Tracker (CT) for spatial-temporal analysis of circumnutation has been developed.

Results

CT works on time-lapse video and collected circumnutation parameters: period, length, rate, shape, angle, and clockwise- and counterclockwise directions. The CT combines a filtering algorithm with a graph-based method to describe the parameters of circumnutation. The parameters of circumnutation of Helianthus annuus hypocotyls and the relationship between cotyledon arrangement and circumnutation geometry are presented here to demonstrate the CT options.

Conclusions

We have established that CT facilitates and accelerates analysis of circumnutation. In combination with the physiological, molecular, and genetic methods, this software may be a powerful tool also for investigations of gravitropism, biological clock, and membrane transport, i.e. processes involved in the mechanism of circumnutation.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Stolarz et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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