Figure 1
From: Inclination not force is sensed by plants during shoot gravitropism
Schematic representation of the g sine law for gravisensing of lateral forces.
(a) Wheat coleoptile inclined at an initial angle θinit from the direction of gravity. (b) Close-up view of statocyte containing sedimented statoliths. Mg sin(θinit) is the force induced by the buoyancy-corrected mass M of statoliths grains on the lateral cell membranes.
