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Calcium as a Trigger and Regulator of Systemic Alarms and Signals along the Phloem Pathway

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This chapter explores how Ca2+ transmembrane movements of individual cells along the phloem pathway could collectively act as a basis for systemic signalling. Sieve elements play a pivotal role in this unifying, speculative concept of Ca2+-triggered signalling which comprises three principal assumptions: (1) Arrays of sieve elements provide a self-amplifying, least-resistance route for electrical potential waves as the inductors of various Ca2+ signatures in cells along the phloem pathway. (2) Ca2+-based systemic signalling occurs in three successive, partly overlapping waves that are distinct in timescale, nature, and site of origin. (3) The second and third waves of signalling require Ca2+-induced occlusion of the symplasmic connections in sieve tubes and adjoining tissues.

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van Bel, A.J.E., Hafke, J.B. (2013). Calcium as a Trigger and Regulator of Systemic Alarms and Signals along the Phloem Pathway. In: Baluška, F. (eds) Long-Distance Systemic Signaling and Communication in Plants. Signaling and Communication in Plants, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36470-9_18

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