Academic Research

Associate Professor Yung-I Lee and his team found that the aerial roots of Phalaenopsis aphrodite in Taiwan do not respond to gravity, a phenomenon associated with the lack of starch granules, the absence of statolith sedimentation, and the loss of the auxin efflux carrier PIN2. These findings provide new insight into the diverse geotropic responses of orchids. The study was published in Plant, Cell & Environment (Chen et al., 2024).

Article source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pce.14975