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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant
Dense plastids serve as gravity sensors
Gravity does not form gradient.
The only way of sensing gravity is through the motion of a sedimenting body.
In plants intracellular gravity sensors are large, dense amyloplast.
Statoliths –amyloplasts that function as gravity sensors.
Statocytes-specialized gravity sensing cells in which statoliths are present.